Posts Tagged "girls"

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You, yes you: Help girls blog and tweet!

Posted Jan 10, 2011 in Education, Empowerment, kenya, Kibera, , zanaafrica by Megan - 2 Comments

Happy new year! Hope your start to the new year has been as great as ours, which has been complete with fabulous volunteers from Wharton and Middlebury and a new grant: This week we join The Girl Effect by bringing [...]

Looking to the Future

Posted Nov 4, 2010 in Careers, Field Officers, zanaafrica by Gracejohn - 0 Comments

I have done a diploma in community development and I would love to continue with my studies in sociology by the beginning of next year. During my work in Kibera I have had to go through many problems, and many times I [...]

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You Don’t Need a Million Shillings to Keep a Girl in School

Posted Oct 27, 2010 in Empowerment, Field Officers, Sanitary Pads, zanaafrica by Amos Ireri - 0 Comments

It surprises me how the government spends a lot of money to buy condoms to give them free to men to continue having sex, while they cannot help a girl child access free sanitary towels to allow her to stay [...]

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Reminding Me Why…

Posted Oct 25, 2010 in Field Officers, Sanitary Pads, zanaafrica by Sarah Meyer - 0 Comments

Often working at an NGO means a lot of office work- whether it be grant writing, drafting annual reports, setting up meetings or answering emails.  For every project that you have operating in the field, there is a lot of [...]

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Filming in Kibera: Our Video Grant Proposal

Posted Oct 13, 2010 in Empowerment, Kibera by Sarah Meyer - 0 Comments

The Nike Foundation is an organization committed to helping girls in the developing world.  The homepage of their website reads… We sought out where we could make the greatest impact. We found it in adolescent girls… When girls have resources, [...]