Blog | GirlChild TotalCare Foundation

The Importance of Mentorship for Girls’ Education and Career Development

Mentoring girls can help them reach their full potential in education and career development. In a world of climate change, rising seas, and economic downturns, a world of a global pandemic and stunted education systems, girls are peering over the distance at a future that appears increasingly to be a mirage. How would girls aspire for something they can’t see or imagine? Where do they find the motivation to discover in a context of uncertainty? Girls can often find some of those answers in a m […]

It Always Seem Impossible Until it is Done & Actions To Reduce The Vulnerability of The Girl Child

Nelson Mandela said 'it always seem impossible until it is done'. Yes! When I visited 'Grow Dat Youth Farm' in New Orleans as a Mandela a Washington Fellow and was inspired with how involved young people were in the meaningful work of growing food, I immediately thought of what replicating an initiative as such would do for my organization - Hope For The Needy Association, what it could do in my life as a person and in the lives of other young people and women in Cameroon.

Youth Leadership to End School-Related Gender-Based Violence

Young people don’t just want to be sources for data sets or people who need protection. We also deserve agency over our own data and experience and want to be an active part of global efforts to end SRGBV.

From Data to Action: Protecting The Next Generation of Women

Every second, three girls experience sexual violence. One in five girls will face sexual violence before she turns 18. Experiencing sexual violence in childhood has lasting physical, mental, educational, and economic consequences that carry into womanhood. The effects don’t disappear—they shape a woman’s life.