Today, project manager Alanna and volunteer Francien headed to the local primary school to launch a new project available for our 'Vulnerable Children and Rural Family Support' project volunteers.
'Girls' Club' involves 30 girls from the local primary school, who applied and were chosen for the programme by the deputy principal of the school. They will meet each week with volunteers and staff from African Impact to partake in crafts, activities and discussions relating to the empowerment of women and girls.
We're very excited about this new project, and look forward to spending the rest of the year with the amazing girls we met today. Check out the following photos of today's first meeting.
An important component of Girls' Club includes journaling - where the girls will write down their thoughts and feelings after a discussion. Today's topic was about the future, and the girl's were given the following quote to discuss and journal about:
"The future belongs to those to prepare for it today." - Malcolm X
Not only were the girls given their booklets and their first topic today, they were also given time to decorate their journals. This was the highlight of the day, as the girls worked for over half an hour on giving their books a personal touch.
The session lasted an hour and a half, and the girls happily posed for a picture and cleaned up the classroom before heading home for the day - after a snack and juice, of course!
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