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ABOUT US
Recognizing that girls face multiple challenges in pursuing an education, African Girls is employing a holistic approach to change the perception of the value of girls at the individual, community and institutional levels; foster an enabling environment for adolescent girls’ education; and engage and equip girls to make life decisions and important contributions to society. Building on stakeholders’ expertise, African Girls invests in new efforts to expand educational opportunities for girls—including in areas of personal health.
OUR PROGRAMS
Providing sustainable solutions to our girls.
Personal Health Club
Girls around the world, without pads use rags, mattress stuffing, banana leaves, feathers to manage their menstruation. Menstruation is perhaps one of…..
Mentorship Club
In Africa, almost every child will grow without a mentor. Research has shown that positive mentoring relationships have a very strong positive….
1 Community 1 Library
In the United States, our ambassadors collect, sort, and pack gently-used books to ship to specific African communities.
WITH ACCESS TO EDUCATION WE CAN DO AMAZING THINGS
In the United States, our ambassadors collect, sort, and pack gently-used books to ship to specific African communities. They organize book drives in local schools and neighborhoods and raise modest funds to ship the books to our libraries.
In Africa, we work with communities to build these libraries. They receive the books and organize them into libraries to serve local African communities. Along the way, the U.S. donors learn about Africa and develop closer connections to the people in the recipient communities.
We work with community leaders, local governments and the community to build sustainable libraries.
OUR BLOG
International Day of the Girl Child
A word from the president of AG as we celebrate the international day of the girl child. In today’s contemporary world, there are still so many impediments to women/girl development. I [...]
TEDWomen 2016: It’s about time.
In planning for TEDWomen 2016, we asked our community: What matters to you now? And in emails and comments and even drawings from TEDxWomen organizers and our network of longtime atten [...]
Knowledge is Power
Around the world and most especially in developing countries, girls have less of both. Barriers to education block girls from achieving the most social form of advancement. It ranges f [...]
Girls Should Stay in School
Menstrual hygiene is an important issue that affects healthy adolescent girls and pre-menopausal adult women monthly. Around the world women have developed their own personal strategie [...]
Rehabilitating Sex Workers
Cameroon has one of the highest HIV prevalence in West and Central Africa of 5.5% (PEPFAR) The prevalence of HIV moved from 0.4% in 1987 to 1.2% in 1990 to 4% in 1992 to about 7% in 19 [...]