Fundraiser for WISER School Business Bootcamp
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The Women's Institute for Education and Research (WISER Girls Secondary School, located in Muhuru Bay, Kenya, provides fully-funded secondary education, clothes, safe housing, meals, medicines, psycho-social support, leadership opportunities, and reproductive health education.
Sexual, physical and psychological abuse of girls is prevalent in many Kenyan schools and has been shown to lead to low aspirations, low self-esteem, and under-achievement. In addition to abuse such as this, girls usually drop out of school due to pregnancy; child marriage; or becoming AIDS orphans. However, despite a 75% dropout rate in neighbouring schools (51% due to early pregnancy), no student has ever dropped out of the WISER Girls Secondary School.
Since 2010, Johnson & Johnson has supported WISER’s efforts by travelling to Kenya to run a Business Bootcamp to teach the girls skills they will need to operate as professionals in the world. On the 19th of March, I will be travelling to Kenya with J&J to take part in this initiative.
I would really, really appreciate your help in allowing me to take part in this trip! Working to ease the plight of young girls in disadvantaged communities is something that I'm so passionate about and have been for a long time.
There are significant travel, accommodation and medical costs associated with the trip so any donation, no matter how small, would be a help to me. If any extra money is raised, this will be donated directly to WISER itself.
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The WISER School is based on three educational pillars:
1. Remove all gender-based sexual, physical and psychological abuse from the educational system. WISER girls thrive in a climate of safety, respect, and high expectations.
2. Provide weekly psycho-social support and counselling for all students to build empowerment and leadership skills, raising girls’ ambitions and their ability to achieve them.
3. Provide strong and supportive mentors and role models in the faculty, including the first female principal in the district. Most girls in Muhuru Bay had never met a university-educated woman.
Facts of Note:
· In Kenya, girls usually drop out of school due to pregnancy; child marriage; physical, sexual, and psychological abuse; or becoming AIDS orphans.
· WISER empowers girls to overcome poverty, HIV/AIDS, and gender based-violence. WISER creates environments that allow young women to drive change in their communities.
· About 30% of the girls attending WISER have been orphaned by AIDS.
· Over the years, 100% of WISER students have finished high school and 90% have gone on to college or university after WISER.
· 60% of WISER girls each year earn fully-funded government scholarships for university attendance.
· In 2017, WISER was ranked 1st in the sub-county, 1st in the county, and 3rd in the entire Lake Region among girls’ schools participating in the National Science and Engineering Fair.
· Over 800 youth around Lake Victoria benefit from WISER’s sexual and reproductive health outreach programs each year.
· WISER provides the first clean drinking water in the area to over 5,000 community members.
WISER website
WISER Overview
Wiser Alumni Story
STEM Education at WISER
Health at WISER
Sexual, physical and psychological abuse of girls is prevalent in many Kenyan schools and has been shown to lead to low aspirations, low self-esteem, and under-achievement. In addition to abuse such as this, girls usually drop out of school due to pregnancy; child marriage; or becoming AIDS orphans. However, despite a 75% dropout rate in neighbouring schools (51% due to early pregnancy), no student has ever dropped out of the WISER Girls Secondary School.
Since 2010, Johnson & Johnson has supported WISER’s efforts by travelling to Kenya to run a Business Bootcamp to teach the girls skills they will need to operate as professionals in the world. On the 19th of March, I will be travelling to Kenya with J&J to take part in this initiative.
I would really, really appreciate your help in allowing me to take part in this trip! Working to ease the plight of young girls in disadvantaged communities is something that I'm so passionate about and have been for a long time.
There are significant travel, accommodation and medical costs associated with the trip so any donation, no matter how small, would be a help to me. If any extra money is raised, this will be donated directly to WISER itself.
______________________________________________________________________________
The WISER School is based on three educational pillars:
1. Remove all gender-based sexual, physical and psychological abuse from the educational system. WISER girls thrive in a climate of safety, respect, and high expectations.
2. Provide weekly psycho-social support and counselling for all students to build empowerment and leadership skills, raising girls’ ambitions and their ability to achieve them.
3. Provide strong and supportive mentors and role models in the faculty, including the first female principal in the district. Most girls in Muhuru Bay had never met a university-educated woman.
Facts of Note:
· In Kenya, girls usually drop out of school due to pregnancy; child marriage; physical, sexual, and psychological abuse; or becoming AIDS orphans.
· WISER empowers girls to overcome poverty, HIV/AIDS, and gender based-violence. WISER creates environments that allow young women to drive change in their communities.
· About 30% of the girls attending WISER have been orphaned by AIDS.
· Over the years, 100% of WISER students have finished high school and 90% have gone on to college or university after WISER.
· 60% of WISER girls each year earn fully-funded government scholarships for university attendance.
· In 2017, WISER was ranked 1st in the sub-county, 1st in the county, and 3rd in the entire Lake Region among girls’ schools participating in the National Science and Engineering Fair.
· Over 800 youth around Lake Victoria benefit from WISER’s sexual and reproductive health outreach programs each year.
· WISER provides the first clean drinking water in the area to over 5,000 community members.
WISER website
WISER Overview
Wiser Alumni Story
STEM Education at WISER
Health at WISER
Organizer
Deirdre O'Flynn
Organizer
