Girl Rising Webinar: A Global Conversation on the Impact of Covid-19 on Girls’ Lives Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Girl Rising’s one-hour presentation and Q&A session brought together experts from the US, Guatemala, Kenya, and India, as well as enthusiastic youth activists campaigning for global girls’ education. The coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and […]
African Girls Can on the Radio! Self-Advocating
Session 2: Advocating for Yourself Wednesday, July 22, 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools throughout Uganda have been closed indefinitely. Students are stuck at home, many with no resources at all to stay connected or continue learning. Community Radio is one of the most effective ways of reaching people in rural areas of developing […]
“Don’t Be Pretty, Be Powerful”
was founded in by the UN Foundation in 2010 to support United Nations programs that help give adolescent girls the opportunity to educated, healthy, safe and positioned to become the next generation of leaders. In the last ten years, Girl Up has impacted over 250,000 girls. It now has over 4,000 clubs in 125 countries […]
African Girls Can on the Radio! Resilience
Session 1: Life Challenges and Becoming Resilient Wednesday, July 8, 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools throughout Uganda have been closed indefinitely. Students are stuck at home, many with no resources at all to stay connected or continue learning. Community Radio is one of the most effective ways of reaching people in rural […]
It’s All in the Way You Frame Things
Define people by their assets, not their deficits. We can invest in assets. On February 19, 2020 (just before COVID-19 hit in the US and stopped us in our tracks), African Girls Can attended a workshop by the Communications Network regarding Asset Framing. It seemed so applicable to our work with schoolgirls from rural […]
Learning to be Empowered!
African Girls Can held its first ever Empowerment Camp at St. Katherine School in Lira, Uganda on August 23-25, 2019. The theme of the two-day session was “Building my Future through Education” and it ended with a meeting (with cake!) for all 13 girls’ families so that they could see what their daughters had […]
What I Learned from Nelson Mandela
by Alum Ketty I had heard of Nelson Mandela before, but did not know his life in detail. Nelson Mandela faced a lot of challenges in so many ways. Among them included these: He was imprisoned for five months without being charged with a crime. He was then sentenced to five years in prison […]
A Geography Lesson
For some context, this blog reviews where African Girls Can operates – from the bird’s eye view of Uganda to a closer look at the rural northern part of the country where our students come from and attend school. Together, let’s learn something about this region, its people and its culture. For those who have […]
Learning to Learn
Today is the first day of the second term in the 2019 school year at St. Katherine and the girls are returning from their three week break at home with their families. Grades from the first term were fairly weak. We felt disappointed, and we’re sure that the girls feel bewildered and overwhelmed with […]
“Optimism is an Antidote to Fear”
Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” has become an international best seller, translated into 31 languages. In North America, it sold over 2 million copies in the first 15 days after its release on November 13, 2018, making it the best selling hard cover book of the year. By the end of March, 2019, over 10 million […]
