Girls Empowerment Camp
The importance of educating and empowering women is far from breaking news. In the early 1990s, this issue attracted the global spotlight when the United Nations and the World Bank recognized the importance of women in society: “Investment in girls’ education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.” Nearly 20 years later, 1 out of 4 women cannot read this sentence.
The purpose of KnowledgeBeat’s Girls Empowerment Camp is to teach girls the importance of financial and social self-reliance, entrepreneurship and creativity. Camp activities, and the discussions that follow them, help young women to better understand themselves, their aspirations and their potential. The camps are designed to create a safe environment for girls to learn, express themselves, and develop skills that will help them advance both personally and professionally.
Our Objectives:
- Educate girls on gender issues and female hygiene
- Build confidence, self-reliance and creative problem-solving skills
- Facilitate prevention of child marriages and teenage pregnancies
- Enable communities to understand and sustain girls’ advancement activities
How We Deliver:
- Hands-on activities: Changing mindsets starts with team-building exercises and trusted conversations
- Goal setting: Re-envisioning goals enables students to break out of cultural norms: young women will become teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs
- Mentorship: Creating a roadmap for success means identifying support networks necessary to overcome obstacles, and outlines the steps and resources necessary to achieve new goals
- Community training: Female facilitators from the communities are trained by KnowledgeBeat staff on how to implement and deliver program activities
- Knowledge Resources: KnowledgeBeat creates written manuals that detail camp activities, lessons and best practices
