Valuable Girl Project: Empower 1000 Girls in Egypt

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Summary

This educational mentoring program empowers 1,000 at-risk girls in Egypt by creating and providing role models, increasing self-esteem, leadership skills, creativity, and educational attainment. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Because of poverty, many girls and young women throughout Egypt must neglect their education in order to marry early, help in the fields, gain immediate employment or carry out domestic labor to meet family needs. When in school, they face gender bias in the classroom and lack positive, educated, female role models to support and inspire them. These conditions gravely limit their economic, political, and social empowerment. Through educational mentoring, VGP counteracts these forces.

Activities

VGP trains young women in secondary school to mentor girls in primary school, providing academic assistance as well as education on nutrition, hygiene, girls’ rights, and civic participation. Mentors receive a monthly stipend for their efforts.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $22,841
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $277,159
Total Funding Goal: $300,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This program will empower 1,000 girls and young women, increasing self-confidence, literacy, leadership skills, health care use and community engagement, and provide them with skills for future wage employment or enterprise.

Project Message

“I learned how to have responsibility, I learned commitment; it gave me self esteem, that we could do this ourselves …and we proved it to the people who would not believe it”
- Sherry, Local program coordinator

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Hanan Baky,
International Program Director
P.O. Box 2881
Merrifield, Virginia 22116
United States
(800) 499-2989
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Project Sponsor

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Organization

Coptic Orphans
P.O. Box 2881
Merrifield, Virginia 22116
United States
1-800-499-2989
http://www.copticorphans.org

Learn more about Coptic Orphans and the project team.


Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Egypt and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about Egypt, read the Human Development Report on Egypt or the Wikipedia entry for Egypt.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 06, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 22, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

VGP Participants March to End FGM

By Hanan Baky - International Program Director, August 06, 2008 03:28 PM


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