I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou
GIRL TRIP 2012
We are very excited to share with you that we have teamed up with Stratosphere International for the first run of GIRL TRIP, bringing together young women 15-19 years of age from Canada and Uganda. Through workshops and experiential learning Canadian girls will have an opportunity to join with a group of dynamic Ugandan girls to focus on girls’ empowerment, global citizenship, and story telling. Canadian girls will take part in a safari at the world renowned Queen Elisabeth National Park and visit some amazing social enterprises and organizations and engage in powerful dialogue with girls half way around the world. Information session is on May 24, 2011 in downtown Vancouver,BC. Not from Vancouver that’s okay! Send us an email and get on your Skype, we’ll conference you in!
Nairobi
In 2008 Loretta Cella, Executive Program Director of the Passion Foundation was able to create some leadership programming for young women while on vacation in Kenya.
As a result of this work for Africa Youth Trust, Brenda Isabel, our phenomenal Kenyan sista, was able to empower over 500 young women in two years time as a Passion Youth Coach.
Brenda is now working hard to make a difference; empowering young women to stay in school by providing them with a safe space to be themselves and learn new skills.
We are currently working on getting Brenda some new teaching tools to continue her work.
Kampala. Gulu 2010
In February 2010 Loretta Cella and Maughan Mariani, Executive Director of the Bavbuka Foundation teamed up and trained over 100 young women in 15 days using the same tools developed for the Passion Project. The girls and women learned leadership tools for self growth as well as to give back into their communities.
Take a look at some footage from the trip:
Mlolongo
The Women’s Empowerment Development Agency works with high-risk teenage girls in Mlolongo, Kenya, a prostitution hotspot. With a soccer team, life coaching workshops, and other after-school activities, we provide the girls a support structure built around school attendance, because if they don’t finish high school they’ll have little choice but to become prostitutes—and we want these girls to have a choice. WEDA works in close partnership with the school staff to help imbue the girls with a sense of their own potential and worth. We are passionate about teaching girls they are the agents of their own bodies and futures!
Anena, Austin, and their team of phenomenal young women
Teaching in Mlolongo 2010
“It was really uplifting. Lots of girls think this stuff isn’t important, but it really is.” – E.C. (Vancouver)
