Women’s Global Education Project
Current donation: $75,000
Donations to date: $150,000
Women's Global Education Project empowers women and girls in rural regions of sub-Saharan Africa to build better lives and foster more equitable communities. Our donations allow WGEP to give 1,500 community members training in how to build climate-smart cookstoves and lead plastic reduction cleanups and reforestation efforts along the Sine-Saloum Delta.
Why They're Climate Smart
In the Fatick region of Senegal, roughly 78 percent of the labor force works as a subsistence farmer and earns less than $2 per day. The region is highly susceptible to drought and high temperatures, and despite its small size, Senegal is one of the top contributors to plastic pollution in the ocean.
WGEP is tackling those problems head on. Through a series of educational programs, comprehensive scholarships, after-school clubs that promote gender equality, leadership workshops, and parent support and community engagement meetings, they are actively dismantling the structural barriers that prevent girls from succeeding at school or leading societal change.
Why They Get Our Continued Support
Roughly 50 percent of the families in Senegal are multidimensionally poor (lacking in health, education, and living standards), and 75 percent suffer from chronic poverty in the Fatick region. With our ongoing donations, WGEP will continue to firmly place women at the forefront of helping their communities escape poverty while contributing less to climate change by teaching an additional 500 women how to construct climate-smart cookstoves (which use 70 percent less firewood than traditional cooking methods), educate 450 students on climate-smart techniques, support 500 girls with leadership training, and train 100 women in permaculture.