Safe Spaces & Loans for 2,000 Girls in Bangladesh
SummaryBRAC’s project will provide 2,000 girls in Bangladesh with safe spaces which will enhance their social awareness, confidence and build their social capital, and encourage life skills development. |
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
There are 600 million adolescent girls living in poverty in the developing world. This project benefits a fraction of these poor in Bangladesh. Safe Spaces seeks to reduce the inequalities and gender discrimination, increase sociability, improve educational attainments, economically empower teenage girls, reduce early marriage and its harmful effects and enhance health awareness and practices.
Activities
Develop 50 safe spaces; train 50 teenage leaders & 2,000 girls in livelihood, life skills, & financial literacy; establish microfinance groups & initiate loan activities; perform process and qualitative research & impact evaluation.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,255
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $85,895
Total Funding Goal: $87,150
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. Educating girls reduces overall HIV and malnutrition, leads to higher high school attendance and reduces risky and early sexual initiation.
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 Street
Suite 1600
New York, New York 10017
United States
212-808-5615
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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
BRAC USA's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Emergency Aid to Victims of Cyclone Aila |
 BRAC health care for 30,000 people in S. Sudan |
 BRAC schools in Sudan for 175 poor children |
 BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Girls in Tanzania |
BRAC USA's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Teenage Ugandan Girls |
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Bangladesh
and can also be found under 
Women and Girls.
For more information about Bangladesh, read the Human Development Report on Bangladesh or the Wikipedia entry for Bangladesh.
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 January 28, 2009
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