Every single attendee on my Morocco retreat is helping to change the world through direct contributions, shopping at the Maryam's souk, and portions of your retreat tuition. And, because, like me, you care so much about girls empowerment and positive ways we can help to change the world, I'm asking you, us, to do more.
Through this fundraiser with your help, we're planning to sponsor a complete squad of teen girls from marginalised and underserved communities. If you - like me - believe that all girls and young women should have access to this essential care, education and opportunity, then please scroll down to find out more about the project and how you can get involved.
Our commitment to Project Soar
How does Project Soar help make a difference?
Project Soar works with 9th-12th grade public school teen girls who typically live on less than 1$/day and have parents with limited or no education. These girls come from underserved rural or semi-rural areas where they are highly vulnerable to child marriage, early motherhood, and gender-based violence.
Their signature girls’ empowerment curriculum is designed to build the capacity of marginalized teen girls to achieve more productive futures.
As well as offering a safe space to the girls, their award-winning 25 Workshop Empowerment Curriculum translates an international human rights education into an optimized curriculum designed for teen girls. The curriculum modules, taught in Arabic and English, are based on the Project Soar 5 Principles of Empowerment and help underserved, marginalized girls understand their Value, Voice, Body, Rights & Path.
What is a Squad?
A squad - which is what this fundraiser is all about - is a group of 20-25 teen girls, exactly like those described above, who are brought together and led through the program by two Empowerment Facilitators.
The squad will meet weekly for an academic year and during these meetings will not only participate in the empowerment workshops, but also create their own Soar clubs and hold Soar dialogues with members of the local community.
Over the course of the program, girls are mentored to increasingly facilitate the program themselves, creating a sustainable mechanism that fosters self-mastery of skills attained and peer to peer learning. The United Nations has invested in the Soar in a Box solution, and the entire curriculum has been approved by the UN Scientific Commission that reviews new solutions.
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Why do girls like these need our help?
Adolescent girls are the most vulnerable and marginalized group on the planet today. These girls face the double discrimination of being female and young. It's no wonder that worldwide they are in crisis. + 32 million adolescent girls globally are out of school: 2 to 3 times more than boys. Each year, 16 million girls become child brides, and many become girl moms and have severe complications related to early childbirth.