Alexandra's Trip to Ghana
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As you may have heard, I was accepted into the Girls Ambassadors for Human Rights program through the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation. I became interested in becoming an Ambassador because I was inspired by the program’s mission: to empower and inspire young woman to become agents of change on the local, national and global stage.
The program aims to make young women into leaders. We, the Girl Ambassadors, are responsible for organizing programs, speakers and activities in a chosen area of concentration, including: Women’s Rights, Haudenosaunee Cultural Exploration, Religious Freedom, Gender Justice, and Human Trafficking. We organize the presentations and activities to explore these topics within the complex relationship between religion, the economy, and the status of women in other countries as well as in the United States. My concentration is religious freedom.
Throughout the year we get to know a group of high school aged girls from Ghana through Skype. In addition, we attend educational events. In July we attended Convention Days in Seneca Falls; and over spring break we will visit an Akwesasne Reservation and stay in a Long House. However, our most exciting trip will be in July of 2018 when we travel to Ghana, Africa--but we need your support!
Our trip is scheduled July 30, 2018 through August 12, 2018. Among the many educational and cultural experiences we have planned are: a stay in a fishing village; a visit to a national museum of indigenous rights and a museum of transformative justice; drumming lessons; interviews with a female school master, refugee women from Liberia, a tribal leader, women from the Jewish village of Sefwe Wiawosa, and gay identified women to discuss their significant challenges; and we plan to visit the Elmina Slave Fort.
While the Girl Ambassadors program is partially funded by the State Department through the American Alliance of Museums--we receive most of our support through fundraising efforts and donations.
I am currently fundraising to pay for airfare and to contribute to the ground cost of this once in a lifetime opportunity!
The deadline for raising funds is July of 2018.
The program aims to make young women into leaders. We, the Girl Ambassadors, are responsible for organizing programs, speakers and activities in a chosen area of concentration, including: Women’s Rights, Haudenosaunee Cultural Exploration, Religious Freedom, Gender Justice, and Human Trafficking. We organize the presentations and activities to explore these topics within the complex relationship between religion, the economy, and the status of women in other countries as well as in the United States. My concentration is religious freedom.
Throughout the year we get to know a group of high school aged girls from Ghana through Skype. In addition, we attend educational events. In July we attended Convention Days in Seneca Falls; and over spring break we will visit an Akwesasne Reservation and stay in a Long House. However, our most exciting trip will be in July of 2018 when we travel to Ghana, Africa--but we need your support!
Our trip is scheduled July 30, 2018 through August 12, 2018. Among the many educational and cultural experiences we have planned are: a stay in a fishing village; a visit to a national museum of indigenous rights and a museum of transformative justice; drumming lessons; interviews with a female school master, refugee women from Liberia, a tribal leader, women from the Jewish village of Sefwe Wiawosa, and gay identified women to discuss their significant challenges; and we plan to visit the Elmina Slave Fort.
While the Girl Ambassadors program is partially funded by the State Department through the American Alliance of Museums--we receive most of our support through fundraising efforts and donations.
I am currently fundraising to pay for airfare and to contribute to the ground cost of this once in a lifetime opportunity!
The deadline for raising funds is July of 2018.
Organizer
Alexandra Raven
Organizer
Manlius, NY
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