By Alian Ollivierre | Founder & Project Leader
You have been absolutely amazing to our cause and we can not thank you enough.
Each contribution has added tremendous impact to our girls, and value to their development. We have added 15 new girls to our cohort, had an increase in programme involvement, and many more volunteers to assist.
However, we are 10% complete in our goal; thus far, and here's how your contributions have helped:
GENERATION Y: Every two (2) weeks has been a world wind of activities for building sisterhood and resilience amongst these girls, made up of a sequence of developmental sessions. One mentee recently stated; "I love this programme. This is like my family and a home away from home. I would really like to come here more often."
In addition to necessary sessions of development, we offered our girls the opportunity for a more relaxed environment, post-exams, while instilling a few key areas necessary for the post-adolescent development; i.e. job and career prep, and expectations for college and university, for example.
GENERAL OUTREACH: We completed our Child Month in Barbados outreach, where we connected with more than 1,000 Barbadian Primary School Aged Girls at five (5) primary schools around the island. This was a spin off from the 50 More Project mentioned in previous reports, and we used these sessions to focus on Entrepreneurship and Social Impact.
What's Happening Now?
We are currently continuing our Summer programming with developmental sessions occuring for the girls on a bi-weekly basis, from Job-Shadowing within the financial sector, to recreational outings for new and insightful experiences.
What's Next?
THE ORGANIZATION & GENERATION Y: Programming Evaluation is soon underway, to ensure your contributions are fully being utilised to their maximum value, and all the correct priority areas are targeted. With every step we take, on an annual basis, we make sure that we slow down for a small period to attain views from mentees, parents, donors, volunteers and the entire team, and press on with analysing what works best for best results.
Additionally, with the high increase of run-aways, mental health challenges, and violence, for example, happening with the girls in Barbados, we are determined to tackle those issues head on. This requires expansion and forward thinking actions. More details to come very soon!
To Conclude:
Your contributions towards building up our mentorship, capacity building and mental health development, has truly maintained our consistent work within the community, and for that we thank you.
Of course, we welcome further support:
1. through spreading the word to all you are familiar with about what we have done to offer the girls of Barbados; thus far, and how our impact may be expanded with their support also; and,
2. through sharing any thoughts from your expertise with us, about how we can become more successful, with our programming development and work.
We appreciate you all, and thank you once again for continuing to champion our cause. You inspire us, as much as the girls do, and our success is yours in this fight for equity. Stay blessed always!
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