Education, Leadership and Rights Program
This program, now completed, envisioned the development a generation of leaders who could work successfully in two worlds: their community and the global arena.
Manifesting as “East African Young Women’s Leadership Initiative,” this innovative partnership invested in a focused group of girls with significant potential, but who were seemingly trapped by a lack of resources and other societal factors. By combining access to schooling with rights training sessions, experiential learning visits, and mentoring, the participants emerged as young leaders, who were grounded in grassroots realities and had the confidence and capability to become important leaders in a global context, if they so desired, or wherever their voices, ideas, and skills were needed.
The East African Young Women's Leadership Initiative
This multi-year partnership with Brighter Green educated nine Maasai young women from Kenya and Tanzania, providing leadership training and mentoring as they became advocates and leaders for women, Indigenous Peoples, and the environment.
This project helped to develop the young women’s skills, knowledge, environmental awareness, and confidence so that as adult women they could continue to be successful leaders in their communities. Each of our participants graduated high school and advanced to higher education.
For more information, please see our partners’ website: http://www.maasaigirlseducationinitiative.org/
