One Girl - the solution?
In Sierra Leone, it is guaranteed that if you are a girl, you will be sexually assaulted. 30% of these girls will be married off before they are 15-years-old. As one of the reasons for motivation, Chantell Baxter co-founded the organisation, One Girl. She went to Sierra Leone and experienced what they experienced for some time and gained empathy towards them.
"An educated girl is three times less likely to contract HIV / AIDS. She‘ll marry later and have fewer, healthier children. For every extra year of schooling, her income will increase by 10 – 25 percent. Educating a girl has a ‘multiplier effect’. An educated girl can change the world."
It is evident that One Girl is an organisation that does have an effect. It has provided 100 education scholarships, trained 147 women to promote the benefits of menstrual hygiene and health and has employed 5 training men and women in the One Girl Sierra Leone Office since its establishment. In 2011, $43K was raised in 30 days through the popular "Do It In A Dress" Campaign. The campaign in total has raised $68,253, putting 284 girls back in school.
One, One Girl aim is to provide 600 education scholarships by 2014. It aims to improve the level of education in Sierra Leone and in greater effect, better the standard of living. They focus on empowering women and girls so they can change their own community, assisting educational and economic empowerment. One Girl also aims for and promote education equality. They are attempting to achieve this through achieving the "3 Steps of Equality in Education", an idea developed by the organisation:
1) Equality of access - the key being attendance
2) Equality in the learning process - having teaching methods that are not gender biased and both men and women can take teaching and leadership roles.
3) Equality of the educational outcomes - both genders have equal opportunities to achieve and their outcomes are only limited by individual efforts.
One Girl is an organisation that assists postitively the communities in Sierra Leone and promotes gender education equality. One Girl assists in the raising of standards of living, health standards and equality through the key element of education.
"An educated girl is three times less likely to contract HIV / AIDS. She‘ll marry later and have fewer, healthier children. For every extra year of schooling, her income will increase by 10 – 25 percent. Educating a girl has a ‘multiplier effect’. An educated girl can change the world."
It is evident that One Girl is an organisation that does have an effect. It has provided 100 education scholarships, trained 147 women to promote the benefits of menstrual hygiene and health and has employed 5 training men and women in the One Girl Sierra Leone Office since its establishment. In 2011, $43K was raised in 30 days through the popular "Do It In A Dress" Campaign. The campaign in total has raised $68,253, putting 284 girls back in school.
One, One Girl aim is to provide 600 education scholarships by 2014. It aims to improve the level of education in Sierra Leone and in greater effect, better the standard of living. They focus on empowering women and girls so they can change their own community, assisting educational and economic empowerment. One Girl also aims for and promote education equality. They are attempting to achieve this through achieving the "3 Steps of Equality in Education", an idea developed by the organisation:
1) Equality of access - the key being attendance
2) Equality in the learning process - having teaching methods that are not gender biased and both men and women can take teaching and leadership roles.
3) Equality of the educational outcomes - both genders have equal opportunities to achieve and their outcomes are only limited by individual efforts.
One Girl is an organisation that assists postitively the communities in Sierra Leone and promotes gender education equality. One Girl assists in the raising of standards of living, health standards and equality through the key element of education.