Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The Binti Pamoja Center will provide 100 adolescent girls and young women with a safe space to discuss and tackle gender-based violence and discrimination, supporting them to make educated choices, lead healthy lives, and become community leaders.

Project Message

You start seeing projects like CFK expand, and over time you see more pathways out of Kibera. More people are able to grow businesses. More young people are able to take advantage of education.
- Barack Obama, US Senator & Democratic Presidential Candidate

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Leann Bankoski,
Executive Director
FedEx Global Education Center, Third Floor
301 Pittsboro St, Campus Box 5145
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
United States
330-904-4859
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organisation

Carolina for Kibera, Inc. FedEx Global Education Center UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Box 5145 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-5145 United States 919-962-6362 http://cfk.unc.edu

Learn more about Carolina for Kibera, Inc. and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Children.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 22, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 01, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

From 12 to 1,000 Binti's Expansion Over the Years

By Hellen Onyango - CFK Program Officer, November 22, 2011 05:08 PM

For nine years the Binti Pamoja Center has been providing safe spaces for adolescent girls and young women in Kibera, giving them an opportunity to receive quality comprehensive education on reproductive health and financial education. We begun with 12 girls and over the years and through the determination and hard work of the Binti Pamoja girls we are now able to work with over 1000 girls in Kibera. Working towards building their assets and fighting for and promoting a safe environment for young adolescent girls in Kibera, an environment that is otherwise hostile to the growth of young adolescent girls. The Binti Pamoja Center has promoted and appreciated the value of peer education, to give young adolescent girls an opportunity to act as agents of social change in their community among their peers and thereby creating an environment that is safe for young adolescent girls to grow and excel in their lives, an environment that enables them to reach their full potential.

This year 81 adolescent girls who recently graduated from our comprehensive two year training on reproductive health and financial literacy will now have the opportunity to be part of this great initiative by recruiting girls and forming their own groups, thereby being leaders in their community that empower other girls in the community and being role models and mentors for other young girls.

Links:

• Binti Pamoja's Graduation Day- Blog Post

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