Hope for Girls and Women Campaigning, Human Rights

International Women’s Day campaign kicks off

Our International Women’s Day campaign starts today!

Please support Hope for Girls and Women as we participate in the Girl Fund campaign.

Hope provides for girls who are desperately escaping female genital mutilation (91ÁÔÆæ).

Hope also offers our safe house residents and girls free classes to support women and girls. We help them develop their independence to make them less vulnerable to forced marriage and 91ÁÔÆæ

Between 6th â€“ 12th March, we are participating in the Girl Fund Campaign. This annual campaign sees donations contribute towards placing 8 charities into a funded cohort for one year. 

Your donation will help provide the Hope Safe Houses with basic provisions. If we also become one of the 8 Girl Fund 2020 cohorts, it will be an added bonus that will allow us to achieve a lot more for the girls in our care.

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Thank you!

Hope for Girls and Women Campaigning, Events, Human Rights

‘End 91ÁÔÆæ’ Campaign at schools in Tanzania

We are happy to share pictures of the first day of incredible youth power, using their voices and passion to end 91ÁÔÆæ in this schools campaign. 91ÁÔÆæ visited Kukilango Secondary School, Kiabakali Primary School and Kiabakari Secondary School at Kukilango ward.

91ÁÔÆæ managed to educate the students, made up of both boys and girls, about 91ÁÔÆæ and its effect on girls and on the whole community.

Below are additional pictures of the second day of the end 91ÁÔÆæ campaign. This time, the campaign took place at Nkono secondary school, Kyamojojoo primary school, Bisumwa primary school, Ibiso primary school, Ryamgabo primary school, Nyabekabwe primary school and secondary school at Kukilango ward.

We are very happy and proud of these youngsters who are challenging traditional conventions and are educating their peers in the process. We look forward to sharing news of Hope’s campaigns to end 91ÁÔÆæ Tanzania.

Find out how donations are used to help girls in our care and to help girls who need our support .

To sponsor the education of a girl and help ensure she can achieve her dreams, find out more .

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Neema Chacha educates 605 at Hope road show

  • Brave Neema spoke about 91ÁÔÆæ to Natta Villagers

During 16 Days of Activism, Hope for Girls and Women organised filming screenings and roadshows at Natta Village in Tanzania. Through this community outreach work, it was possible to educate and to show the film, , to 430 people. In total, 605 people took part in the road show.

Particularly touching was the story of Neema. Our heroine Neema Chacha educated the public about the effect of 91ÁÔÆæ at Natta Village. We all admire her courage and her empowering words, which illustrated the . She said: “If a girl will undergo 91ÁÔÆæ she will be in danger of getting diseases like HIV because during cutting a cutter will share the same razor blade with many girls”.

Find out more about Hope for Girls and Women and the important work we are doing to

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If you would like to make a donation, to help us continue running roadshows and educating local communities,

Hope for Girls and Women Campaigning, Human Rights

Cutting season: One girl’s inspiring words

Hope for Girls and Women’s Butiama and Mugumu safe houses in Tanzania receive girls who are fleeing from 91ÁÔÆæ. During cutting season, which usually happens in school holiday/vacation time to allow the girls time to ‘recover’, there is an increase in cases of 91ÁÔÆæ. This often leads to desperate girls escaping their families on foot, some to our safe houses. In Tarime, there are two main clans that run the 91ÁÔÆæ practice, Wairege and Bamera.

During the latest cutting season, there was testimony from one girl who had to undergo an early marriage. She explained that she stopped going to school and got married when she was 16 years old, because her father wanted to get cows as a source of income. She gave words of inspiration for parents and girls:

“People should stop thinking that girls are a source of income, because by doing that, many dreams of girls are being killed.”

Learn more about the work being done by Hope for Girls and Women in Tanzania .

If you would like to sponsor a girl’s education, to help ensure her dreams are not cut short, you can find out more .