Have you heard about the new initiative between Peace Corps and first Lady Michelle Obama?
Let Girls Learn is an exciting new collaboration aimed at increasing girls' education worldwide. Educating girls is essential to healthy and thriving communities but in many countries the barriers to adolescent girls completing school are particularly significant.
While Let Girls Learn will initially focus on 11 Peace Corps countries that are not Morocco, we know that Peace Corps Volunteers here in North Africa care passionately about this issue.
The three pillars of the Let Girls Learn initiative are:
Let Girls Learn is an exciting new collaboration aimed at increasing girls' education worldwide. Educating girls is essential to healthy and thriving communities but in many countries the barriers to adolescent girls completing school are particularly significant.
While Let Girls Learn will initially focus on 11 Peace Corps countries that are not Morocco, we know that Peace Corps Volunteers here in North Africa care passionately about this issue.
The three pillars of the Let Girls Learn initiative are:
- Empowering Leaders
- Working Hand in Hand with Communities
- Increasing the Impact of Peace Corps Volunteers
We do all three here in Peace Corps Morocco in our Gender and Development work and because we are especially committed to working hand in hand with local communities and counterparts, we are releasing more and more GAD resources in both Arabic and English.
Just because Morocco isn't one of the initial participants in Let Girls Learn doesn't mean we can't do work on this issue! So check out the GAD Morocco Girls Education Toolkit and put it to use in your community.
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