Women’s Global Education Project
Current donation: $20,000
Donations to date: $50,000
Women's Global Education Project (WGEP) empowers women and girls in rural regions of sub-Saharan Africa to build better lives and foster more equitable communities. Our donation will allow WGEP to give 420 women training on how to build climate-smart cookstoves and prepare 450 students to lead plastic reduction clean-ups and reforestation efforts along the Sine-Saloum Delta.
Why They're Climate Smart
In the Fatick region of Senegal, roughly 78 percent of the labor force works as subsistence farmers and earns less than $2 per day. The region is highly susceptible to drought and high temperatures, and despite its small size, Senegal is one of the top contributors to plastic pollution in the ocean.
WGEP is tackling those problems head-on. Through a series of educational programs, comprehensive scholarships, after-school clubs that promote gender equality, leadership workshops, and parent support and community engagement meetings, they are actively dismantling the structural barriers that prevent girls from succeeding at school or leading societal change.
Why They Get Our Continued Support
In 2023, WGEP added a climate-smart element to their program in the rural Fatick region of Senegal. Through their program, which serves 420 women and 450 high school students, they are firmly placing women at the forefront of helping their communities contribute less to climate change by building climate-smart cookstoves (which use 70 percent less firewood than traditional cooking methods) and learning waste management techniques.