Focus Area 1: Adolescent Girls Access to Education, Technology and Innovation - AGAETI
Focus area Purpose:
We want to ensure that impoverished rural adolescent girls have access to quality education and the
technological resources and skills needed for their
academic success and participation in the digital world and lead change in their
lives and communities in Tanzania.
Focus area Priority/Goal:
We aim to support at least 500,000 impoverished rural adolescent girls aged between 10 to 19 years old in Tanzania by 2050 to access primary and secondary schools education and technological skills to help them become innovators and change-makers both in their lives and communities.
Focus area Interventions (Actions):
To meet our goal under this focus area, our organization implement the following activities:I. We provide educational scholarships, school uniforms and learning materials, menstrual hygiene products and soaps to support brilliants impoverished rural adolescent girls access to primary and secondary schools education for their success and retention.
II. We offer educational mentorship and life skills training and seminars aimed at helping impoverished rural adolescent girls in primary and secondary schools focus on and succeed in their education and prepare them to take leadership roles in their communities after completing their studies.
III. We empower poor, rural families through equitable and gender-responsive parenting support and poverty alleviation initiatives to enable parents/caregivers to become able to equally provide care for their children in their adolescence stage, support them to access education, technology and innovation and grow up safely, healthily and with dignity to realize their dreams and build better lives.
IV. We engage the community and various stakeholders locally and internationally to address social, cultural, and economic barriers hindering impoverished rural adolescent girls access to quality education, STEM fields and technological skills ( Digital and ICT skills and literacies) and resources in rural communities.
V. We initiate, build, equip and operate modern private secondary schools for rural brilliants neediest adolescent girls in order to offer them access to equitable holistic quality education with focus on promoting STEM education model and leadership.
OUR CALL TO ACTION:
BE THE CHANGE AND REASON FOR THE CHANGE IN THEIR LIVES!
We can all make a sustainable difference and impact in the lives of the impoverished rural adolescent girls and young women we help and serve in Tanzania.
Therefore, we would like to sincerely ask you to take one or all of the following actions listed below for helping us continuing making impact and dismantle inequalities in rural communities in Tanzania:
1. We invite you to Champion our organization and its cause by being a true believer, role model, connector and supporter of the mission, vision, and impact of our organization.
2. We invite you to be a voice by inviting others to become involved and engaged with our organization and its cause for a greater visibility and help grow our organization’s network and influence around the world.
3. We invite you to invest in our work by using your time, energy, and even making a valuable donation of any amount to help us answer the needs of the target groups we serve and implement actions leading to sustainable and impactful changes.