The Girl Effect
AJWS recognizes the powerful potential of girls to effect social change in the developing world and is providing long-term support to grassroots organizations that focus on girls’ empowerment, providing girls with access to educational, health and economic resources.
AJWS joins the Girl Effect in its pursuit of the powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate.
Through a partnership with the Nike Foundation’s Grassroots Girls Initiative (GGI), AJWS and other leading grantmaking organizations are empowering adolescent girls by supporting grassroots organizations in implementing programs, conducting advocacy, strengthening their organizational and programmatic capacities, and collaborating with other partners.
AJWS supports 16 organizations throughout Ethiopia, Kenya and India that are creating safe spaces for adolescent girls to grow and flourish, and become change-makers within their communities. AJWS has strengthened these groups’ programs on the ground and made their work more visible in national and international forums that promote the needs and priorities of girls.
The Girl Effect, n. The powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society.
Girl Effect Grantees
Siiqqee Women Development Association (SWDA)
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program
To enable girls and young women to defend their rights and attend school by providing financial support and counseling, as well as training on reproductive health, gender equality, assertiveness and leadership.
Shaheen
Women's Empowerment
To provide education, vocational training, counseling services and employment opportunities to marginalized Muslim adolescent girls and to educate community members on sex trafficking, domestic violence and the health needs of adolescent girls.
Rift Valley Children and Women Development Association (RCWD)
Adolescent Girls' Education Support
To promote the retention of adolescent girls in secondary school through financial support, mentorship, training and peer education.
Mohammad Bazar Backward Class Development Society (MBBCDS)
Building Women's Leadership
To promote Muslim women's leadership by conducting awareness trainings on the legal rights guaranteed to them by the Indian Constitution — mainly freedom from domestic violence, the right to property and the right to education.
Kisumu Medical Education Trust (K-MET)
Youth for Youth Program and Advocacy
To support the advocacy efforts of the Kisumu Brain Trust, a community of adolescent girl-focused organizations in western Kenya, and to enable KMET to expand its Sisterhood for Change program by setting up four satellite offices.
Heshima Kenya
Girls Empowerment Project
To build the long-term self-sufficiency of unaccompanied refugee girls in Nairobi by providing case management services, basic education, life-skills training, vocational training, financial literacy and income-generation through a cooperative.
Fortress of Hope Africa
Okoa Wasichana Wetu Project
To build the social and economic capital of adolescent girls through youth-led community outreach, safe spaces, psychosocial support and training on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, life skills and entrepreneurship.
Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW)
Adolescent Girls Community of Practice in Nairobi
To build the capacity of adolescent-girl-focused organizations by creating a collaborative network and offering training and networking opportunities with national women’s rights and human rights organizations. CREAW will also re-grant funds to the organizations in its network so they can implement programs conceived in the network.
Astitva
Preventing Gender Discrimination and Violence Against Muslim Adolescent Girls
To raise awareness among families and communities about the importance of girls' education, discourage the trafficking of girls, and raise awareness among adolescent girls about their basic rights.
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