Educating The Children

Empowering girls and women in East Africa through education.

Why your donation is so vital?

Small donations go a long way to help build sustainable futures for young girls and women in East Africa.
We partner with corporate firms and facilitators to give hands on training that result in genuine opportunities.
When women and girls earn income, they reinvest 90% of it into their families, as compared to only 30% to 40% for a man.

Educating The Children’s mission is to empower girls & young women in East Africa through education & training.

Supporting education and innovation through our values

We don’t seek to impose ideals for what our girls should become, but create new opportunities to be able to empower them with choices, so that they can follow their true calling. We encourage independent, creative thinking – this is the essence of what we do.

We work shoulder to shoulder with the communities we operate in because we believe that this is the most effective way to ensure sustainability. We listen to what they want, and work with them to achieve it.

We encourage our girls to give back to those who are starting their journeys; we want to build a supportive network; we increase our impact and sustainability by doing this.

The number of girls we help is important, but so is the depth and the quality of the impact we make. We strive to transform minds and life situations.

WHY GIRLS???

When women and girls earn income, they reinvest 90 percent of it into their families, as compared to only 30 to 40 percent for a man.

This is why we focus on skills and qualifications that lead to formal employment.

At least 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation. Data from 30 countries in 2015 indicate that more than 1 in 3 girls between 15 and 19 years of age have undergone the procedure.

This is why in communities where we work and FGM is prevalent (Masai Mara), we have built boarding facilities to keep our girls safe.

The likelihood of exclusion from education is most problematic among young women in sub-Saharan Africa, where 49.8 per cent of the female youth population had either no or limited education

This is why we’ve built the first girls secondary school in the Masai Mara – so they can’t be deprioritised anymore.

Limited educational opportunities for girls and barriers to completing 12 years of education cost countries up to $30 trillion dollars in lost lifetime productivity and earnings

In Kampala, we are actively linking young women to employment opportunities following their training.

Almost 60% fewer girls would become pregnant under 17 years in sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia if they all had a secondary education

In our secondary school in the Masai Mara, sex education is firmly on the agenda.

Our Partnerships

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Get in touch.

If you’d like to get involved or would like more information on the work we do, please do get in touch.

Email us at: Jambo@etc.education

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