Yombo Vituka girls support the community

3 May 2011 - In Yombo location (a Chipua project area), after a Chipua member lost her father, program participants took the initiative of supporting their friend.  They visited her home and literally helped her with her daily chores and organizing a funeral for her father.  The support and solidarity was so sincere and unique that some of the visitors who came a long way to attend the funeral were shocked and asked the girls, “how come you are helping out so much?” and the response from a program participant was, “girls need other girls’ support in order to stand on their own feet and not feel disappointed and alone.  We should go beyond talks or shows, but action”.  Additionally, some girls sought out a widowed woman from the community and have since been assisting her in fetching water and cooking, also providing her company.

Girl Leaders start a campaign called  “Girl in Crisis Home Visits”

May 2011 - Several times a week the project participants, taking part in the program at Chipua are accompanied by the Girl Leaders; go out to different communities to reach out to those girls who find it difficult to attend the “girls in crisis project”.  “It is a difficult job, sometimes the parents of some of the girls do not want us to talk to their girl, but we have to try,” said Latifa a program participant.   As a result of these home visits, many girls find courage and hope in taking part in the program.  Girls’ leaders are those girls who took part in the previous projects and were transformed into Girl Leaders. 

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