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Shared from the Bosh Bosh // And they’re off to meet @MichelleObama and her lovely daughters!!! President of Bosh Bosh, Inc. Sis Yamah and Scholars Ruth Frank and Fatu will have the honor to meet and interact with the First Lady of the United States this Monday at the @PeaceCorps Training Facility in Bong County during #glowcamp (Girls Leading Our World). We’re extremely honored for our scholars and Sis Yamah to have this once in a life time opportunity to represent #BoshBosh and meet Michelle Obama!!! Go Sis Yamah, Ruth Frank and Fatu!!!! http://bit.ly/292omXG
“Yesterday this girl and a few other students came to me in the staff room and said our new girls club wants to go on an excursion. So I sat back because I had no idea what to expect. Then, she said they want to go to where they make the laws. They want to go to Parliament House.
So that’s just what we’ll do!
Before the school term started she was part of a #PeaceCorps GLOW camp for empowering young ladies like this one. Since then, she has become the president of our girls club and presented twice to large groups in our community about sexual health.
In school (and through GLOW), she’s been learning about her health and to both lead and teach. #62milliongirls just like her don’t have that chance.”
– Peace Corps Ghana Volunteer Michael Malavé
Finished up an exciting, but exhausting girls empowerment camp (Gëm Sa Bopp - Believe in Yourself) on Sunday. It was a long week, but the smiles on the girls’ faces were worth it. Thank you to everyone who supported and made this camp possible! #peacecorps #pcsenegal #gemsabopp #senegal #letgirlslearn #girlsempowerment
Camp GLOW Tongatapu Day 3 : In small teams, the girls shadowed Tongan “Model Mommas” in their respective fields of work. Madeline, Piula, Losaline, Lisa and Luisa got the chance to visit the Global Climate Change Alliance and see the work they are doing to help build climate change resiliency here in Tonga!! #PeaceCorps #PeaceCorpsTonga #CampGLOW #girlscamp #leadership #sisterhood #community #citizenship #girlsleadingourworld
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First Lady Michelle Obama greets girls at their school in Cambodia. Cambodia is one of the Peace Corps countries participating in Let Girls Learn, a White House initiative to keep girls in school.
You would be hard pressed to find a Peace Corps Volunteer who hasn’t been asked to give English classes in their community. I learned the hard way that just because I speak English doesn’t mean I can teach it. I started my service teaching community wide English classes three times a week to a group of 25. I am not a TEFL volunteer and was in over my head, who knew the English language had so many rules! I was relieved when the classes finally stopped and swore off English classes in favor of working on my principal project- Community Organization and Economic Development.
Flash one year and my favorite project is my Girl’s English club. Three motivated tweens sought me out and have proven to be dedicated and delightful students because they truly want to learn. We have interactive classes using traditional and nontraditional lesson plans (the girl’s now know the words to “All About That Bass”) and after just 3 months of studying my students have become the teachers. They now teach weekly English lessons to kindergarten, first and second grade students. With the classes the girls have more responsibility, help them to develop confidence, learn to create lesson plans and are given a new environment to practice their English! Here are some pictures from their lesson on animals!
This 10 year old is so smart, funny, sassy, and confident! She’s always wanting to learn “lagi! lagi” (more, more! )
I always carry around my dictionary and look up words and she’s taught herself how to use it too!
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“This was taken during my pre-service training back. I was living in a town in Kyrgyzstan for the first 3 months of my service, until I moved to my permanent site. These were girls whom I made friends with when we weren’t learning language or going to hub site for technical sessions. We went on walks, played hopscotch, jump rope, and occasionally ran over to the soccer fields to take on the boys in a little pick up game. It was always nice to come home after a long day to these girls running down the street screaming my name and asking me to play with them.”
“At Camp GLOW, one young woman (Hanny) from one of the seven communities who attended the camp talks with a group about puberty and health - executing facilitation and presentation skills learned during the camp.”
“I took this photograph of Regina, a 14-year-old indigenous K'iche’ girl who, instead of attending school, was obligated to eke out a living as a nanny for my neighbor’s infant daughter, Alejandra (in arms). In my rural site in Guatemala, girls
assume domestic responsibilities at an early age and are far less likely than their male counterparts to continue their studies.”
