- info@siyabongauk.co.uk
- Charity Number - SC051228
The Girls Dignity program is a mentorship program that equips adolescent girls with life skills, Godly character as well as etiquette to enable them thrive in the fast growing world.
This project runs for a period of 1 month with a total of 8 sessions. Each session is 1 hour and 30 minutes of discussion and mentorship respectively. The Cohort intake are 2 weeks from the end of the class to allow the team to prepare for the next Cohort.
The project is designed for adolescent girls community girls from the ages of 10 – 19 years form underserved communities around Butambala and Wakiso district.
Most challenges, perceptions and mindsets that affect girls are as a result of not knowing their value in God, to self and to the society. For generations in the African setting, a girls future has been reduced to marriage, nothing more or less. This has greatly blurred most of the girls to thinking that their dreams are not valid since its already defined for them. This project is designed to inspire a girl to think that “ Her dreams are valid”, that she is beyond what the society or cultural norms have told her about her future. It is designed to tell a girl that she is valuable to herself, to her family ,to the society and most especially to God.
The program recruitment process starts from identifying a community and a family in the community that can host the program. 10 – 14 girls in the community are carefully identified and selected by the help of the community women representative and the mother of the hosting home. When the training starts, on the first day, the participants are distributed among the 5 mentors with a minimum of 2 and maximum of 3 per mentor, the mentors are assigned the task of engaging these participants with an open and loving heart. Accountability is groomed in the participants by each being the sister’s keeper in the same mentorship group.
