The Sega Girls School in Morogoro, Tanzania
provides quality academic education to marginalized girls, emphasizing leadership skills, social responsibility, self-sustainability and environmental care.
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2012 Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Forgirlsake raised $15,400 to build
the only girls' boarding school at
the Camp. Construction is underway
to provide a safe learning environment
for 250 girls attending grades 7
through 12.
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2011 Urubamba, Peru
Forgirlsake raised $5,780 to establish a textile-teaching course, providing an opportunity for indigenous girls teaching the course to attend school. Its financial success will resonate in their community and the program aims to break racial barriers between indigenous and non-indigenous groups.
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2010 Morogo, Tanzania
This year our objective was to raise $6,265 to fund a
solar-powered computer lab for the Sega girls’ school
in Tanzania. Instead, we raised $9,273 and were able to purchase additional computers and provide internet
access for approximately three years.
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2009 Maasai Mara, Kenya
In this past year we raised funds for a library at a girls'
secondary school under construction in Maasai Mara, a rural
region of Kenya with a high poverty rate. Instead, we surpassed our original fundraising goal and raise $9,600!
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2008 Sironko, Uganda
In 2007 we accomplished our goal of sending seven girls to high school. Later we discoverd that nine more girls from the same elementary school had passed the graduation exams — so how could we stop there? In 2008 we raised an additional $6,950, and now these nine other girls are also on a path that can offer them and their community new opportunities.
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2007 Sironko, Uganda
In our founding year, our goal was to raise $4,200, $20 at a
time, to send five Ugandan girls to secondary school for four
years. Instead, we collected $6,350! The additional funds
enabled us to send a total of seven girls from the village
of Sironko in eastern Uganda, to Buhugu Secondary School. |
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2010 Morogoro, Tanzania
This year Forgirlsake raised $9,273 to fund a solar-powered computer
lab for the Sega girls’ school in Tanzania. |
In 2010, we partnered with Nurturing Minds to support a girls’ school in Tanzania called The Sega Girls School, operated by the Tanzanian organization SEGA (Secondary Education for Girls’ Advancement). Nurturing Minds, the funding source for this school, is a US-based non-profit organization that supports quality education for bright, motivated Tanzanian girls who otherwise would not attend school due to extreme poverty.
The ability to have access to and utilize computers and the internet in the classroom is critical to providing quality education. With this in mind, Forgirlsake’s goal was to raise $6,265 to fund a solar-powered Inveneo Computer Lab for the school, which consists of 5 Inveneo computing stations, one hub server, an external USB DVD/RW drive, and a LaserJet printer. Instead, Forgirlsake raised over $9,000 and is purchasing an additional 2 computers and paying for internet service for about 3 years.
Inveneo computers consume very little power, which makes them ideal for use with solar power. In addition, these computers are designed for use in rugged, rural, challenging environments, making them optimal for use in Morogoro, Tanzania. Suntech donated 22 solar plans, 140 Watt each, which will provide the computer lab and the school with safe, affordable, green energy. The school is not hooked up to the national grid, which frequently experiences powersurges that could harm computer equipment. The computer lab is now in operation. Click here to see photographs of the girls using computers for the first time.
According to a United Nations Tanzania report in July 2010, only 18 percent of girls have completed secondary school education and every fifth Tanzania girl has no education at all. Providing The Sega girls with a solar-powered computer lab is part of an educational program that will make them strong, dynamic leaders who can guide social change in their nation, and part of Forgirlsake's mission to unleash the potential power of girls around the world, and create a ripple effect of positive social and economic change. Click here to read the full UN report.
Click here to view photographs of the Sega girls by Canadian photographer, Warren Zelman.
For more information on Nurturing Minds, visit www.nurturingmindsinafrica.org.
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