For Alice, and thousands of young women, SWEDD is making a difference in their lives. Alice now has a new outlook on life. She wants to run her own business. Be her own boss. “One day, I will be a professional pastry chef,” said Alice. “I will have my own pastry store.”
In Niger, where just 1 in 10 girls completes secondary education, SWEDD has changed the trajectory of Innayatou Souradji’s life. “My mother and grandmother never went to school because they got married too early,” Innayatou said. “I am fortunate to have received a scholarship to pursue my studies.”
Like Alice and Innayatou, more than 100,000 other girls from poor families are receiving support from the project in the form of school kits, scholarships, housing, and academic support.
Empowering women and girls in the Sahel begins with changing society’s unwritten…
