By Xia Zhao, Lehigh University, USA
Girls are lag behind in South Africa. What are the
challenges in South Africa about girls? How can we help girls through NGOs with
the partnership with others? In March 12th 2015, NGO representatives
from South Africa with P&G sponsors had a presentation at Armenia
Convention Center in New York. The panel session titled “Partnerships that Accelerate Change to Always
Keep Girls in School”, which discussed the Small Projects Foundation’s
programs for keeping girls in school in South Africa.
Ms Nanga Magadla, the marketing manager of Small Projects Foundation,
introduced the serious girls’ educational problems in South Africa. In poor
areas of South Africa, parents don’t see the value of education. Families
prefer boys rather than girls to go to school. Child, early and forced marriages
are illegal in documents in South Africa, but it has not been executed. Mothers
never communicate with their daughters.
Small Projects Foundation has the partnership with P&G.
They create a project in South Africa, called Bright Futures Programme, which
began in 2007. The main goal is to empower youth in South Africa to complete
school and have the skills to find or great their own jobs and develop bright
futures for themselves. Ms Magadla said
that, “Bright Future is beautiful. It empowers girls.” Because of this
project, teachers and parents have more interactions than ever before. Parents
began to send girls to school. Children have time to do homework. Mothers have
more communication with their daughters.
The session was ended by playing the video “Always Like a Girl”,
which is very powerful. Girls should be proud of themselves and do what they
really want to do.
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