Our Annual Fundraiser 2025 is live!
We’re so glad you’re here and we hope you will consider a contribution!

[Go to our online fundraiser here]

The funds we raised last year helped our partner organization in Ethiopia – Girls Gotta Run Foundation (GGRF) – pilot a self-defence programme for adolescent girls, after their mothers raised concerns about a rise in traditional ‘abduction’ practices in Soddo (where the programme is based). Thanks to YOUR support the new self-defence initiative got off to a roaring start. 50 girls received hands-on training in taekwondo-based self-defence, as part of critical life skills learning. Their training is continuing, and more girls will soon be added to the group.

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VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND DIGITAL SKILLS

Over the next 2 years, we hope to focus our efforts on empowering adolescent girls who are alumni of our partner GGRF’s athletic scholars programme. Because of the success of the programme, these girls are avoiding early marriage and completing high school. Some hope to continue their education in college, while others have dreams of becoming entrepreneurs. We hope to support vocational training to help girls develop the necessary skills they need to start small businesses such as sewing and needlework, hairdressing, and shopkeeping (all based on requests from the girls themselves).

We also want to help grow something that so many of us take for granted. Digital literacy. This remains an immense challenge in Ethiopia for young people, because of poor tech infrastructure, and limited to no access to devices and the internet. Girls are especially impacted – cultural stereotypes mean that technology of any kind is still viewed as a male domain. Many families also simply cannot afford to pay for internet access, or devices, much less learn how to use them. This will shut out too many young people from 21st century digital economy opportunities.

This year, a few laptops and mobile devices were procured for the girls by GGRF, and the hunger to learn how to use these was insatiable!! Plans are now underway to create two computer labs, one in each programme location, which will serve as a safe space for girls to study and develop their digital skills. Launching the labs, complete with space rental, equipment, devices and staffing will cost $20,000 over the course of a year.

We hope to raise $10,000 to fully launch one of the labs. 
Is this ambitious? YES. 
Can we do it? WE THINK ALSO YES!

Project Good for Girls is proud to continue partnering with GGRF to expand its support for adolescent girls both joining the programme, and as alumni so they can continue with their studies, develop important life and vocational skills, and become leaders in their communities.