BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Teenage Ugandan Girls
Micro loans to girls
Summary
BRAC's ELA project will provide 500 teenage girls in Uganda with 20 safe spaces, informal education and micro loans. This will help them lead confident, self-reliant and dignified lives
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $18,141 was raised for this project. |
Received $18,141 from 321 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
There are 600 million teenage girls living in poverty in the developing world. This project benefits girls in one of the world’s poorest countries: Uganda. The project addresses the prevalent inequalities created by subordination, early marriage, frequent pregnancy, abandonment, divorce, domestic violence, marginalization and exclusion through financial and social interventions. The effect is a higher standard of living for families, villages, and the entire country.
Activities
Life skill training, reading, socializing at the center, playing indoor games, income generation training courses, extra-curricular activities, livelihood training, micro finance group formation, micro lending, impact research.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $18,141
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $18,141 . The original project funding goal was $90,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
An educated girl marries 4 years later, has 2.2 fewer children and reinvests 90% of her income in her family as opposed to a man’s 35%. Educating girls reduces overall HIV and malnutrition and also leads to higher high school attendance.
Project Message
“We can dramatically improve the lives of adolescent girls and the communities they live in by giving the girls a basic education and a means to earn a livelihood.”
- Susan Davis, President & CEO, BRAC USA
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Michelle Chaplin
11 East 44th St.
Suite 1600
New York, NY 10017
United States
(212) 808-5615
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
BRAC USA
11 East 44th St. Suite 1600
New York,
NY
10017
United States
(212) 808-5615
http://www.brac.net/usa
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Uganda
and can also be found under 
Women and Girls.
For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 20, 2008
Latest Update from the Field
We've done it!
By Michelle Chaplin - Program Manager, BRAC USA, October 16, 2008 01:21 PM
As the program has had such initial success in Uganda, we've begun to pilot the same program for teenage girls in Tanzania. Please check out the Safe Spaces & Loans project for girls in Tanzania and continue to show your support!
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