I love, love, love BRAC's work with Bengali, Tanzanian and Ugandan teenage girls who have dropped out of school.
The Social and Financial Empowerment of Adolescents (SOFEA) project is a BRAC initiative in Bangladesh that provides teen girls with financial and social support to enable them to empower themselves. The project is also active in Tanzania and Uganda, where it is known as Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA).
The SOFEA program includes:
* A secure place for adolescent girls to socialize
* Life-skills training
* Livelihood training
* Financial literacy
* Savings and credit facilities
* Community sensitization
I learned about these BRAC programs through this Kiva blog post (which I found out about via Kiva's Facebook page.) I really wanted to fund one of the participants' Kiva loans, but all of the loans had already been fully funded by the time I checked the Kiva website. Yet I had a great time reading each girls' profile:)
Definitely check out the Kiva post for additional info about the programs, and check out the below video interview with Farzana Kashfi, Head of SOFEA Program at BRAC Bangladesh.
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