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To deliver equitable and high-quality education by providing an innovative learning environment that promotes youth skills development, supports sustainable communities, and promotes economic growth through STEM.

Mission: We engage, educate and empower girls, because girls matter! Engage: Girls are actively involved in the development of our program, so that it meets their needs and interests. Educate: We strive to teach girls life skills in a playful way, so that they have the means to develop themselves further. Empower: Our goal is to inspire and motivate girls, and to enable them to contribute to the community. We achieve this with the help of role models, peer educators and collaboration with various organizations. Vision: when one girl finds her power to make different choices that change her life, it inspires others to do so too. She starts a ripple effect that impacts her family, her community, her country, the girleffect Girls are talented, smart and loving, but sometimes forget to put themselves first. At Girls Forward, we want to offer girls a place where they can be themselves, can reflect on their true self, and can get the best out of themselves. At Girls Forward, we empower girls with skills and tools that can help them realize their dreams and ambitions. You will learn to work from your strengths, to think in possibilities and to trust yourself. We stand for diversity and inclusivity; our doors are open to all types of girls. Purpose: to inspire, motivate, contribute to society through role models, peer educators and collaboration partners Our goal is to inspire and motivate girls, and to enable them to contribute to the community. We achieve this with the help of role models, peer educators and collaboration with various organizations. Girls Forward believes that girls can achieve anything they want. Girls are talented, smart and loving, but sometimes forget to put themselves first. At Girls Forward we empower girls by offering them skills and tools that can take them further to achieve their dreams and ambitions. At Girls Forward we want to offer the girls a place where they are able to reflect on their true "I" and get the best out of themselves. Girls Forward strongly thinks in terms of possibilities and to trust yourself. Girls Forward stands for diversity & inclusivity and welcomes all types of girls. Our initiatives are designed to combat gender-based and cultural-based discrimination, promote self-confidence, and encourage personal development. Girls Forward organizes group activities, sport sessions, events and individual coaching. The group activities at Girls Night offer workshops around life skills such as Healthy Girls, Identity, Me Myself & I and Performance. The Healthy Girls Leadership Sport Program organizes sport sessions on a weekly basis which help girls to build confidence and self-esteem. Furthermore Girls Forward organizes a number of large events for and by girls, where Girls Forward wants to motivate, inspire and connect the girls. Besides all these activities Girls Forward counselors offer individual coaching for girls who need a listening ear and advice.

Raising Girls seeks to empower young girls to recognize their own potential by building and encouraging self-respect. We intend to provide necessary hygiene products to girls throughout Tacoma, wherever the need is greatest.

Cool Girls’ mission is to empower Atlanta girls by breaking the cycle of poverty, low self-esteem and teen pregnancy.Cool Girls, founded in 1989, has formed strategic, long-term partnerships with Title I schools in metro Atlanta and 90% of the girls we serve qualify for free or reduced lunch and come from Low Moderate Income (LMI) families. We ensure that girls who are most in need of direct services participate in our programs. Our programs promote academic achievement and teach life skills development. Our early intervention services begin in the 2nd grade and through middle school and then high school, we provide building blocks and the tools for girls to make positive decisions, Cool Girls provides our programming free of charge to the girls, parents, and schools.

Edu-GIRLS seeks to address the unique challenges to delivering education to girls created by social and gender bias in poverty affected households. In such households, with both parents trying to earn a living, girls are often held back from school to take care of the household or look after younger siblings or even to add to the meager family income through menial work. Edu-GIRLS approach customizes delivery methods to achieve success in such a setting, where few resources are devoted to the girl child. We do not stop at increased primary enrollment. We do not stop at achieving high rates of high school completion. We extend ourselves to ensure that girls have acquired skills for good jobs. We go all the way to financial independence.

To break the cycle of poverty by providing girls with continuous social, emotional and academic support.

Founded in 2013, Girls PACT combats unplanned pregnancy among young women ages 15-24 by revealing the power of self-confidence.

About NGO Girls NGO Girls ( ) is a Ukrainian national women-led non governmental organization committed to empowering women and girls in crisis affected communities. Founded in 2019, it operates with a mission 'Girls and women in Ukraine plan all pregnancies, build life strategies, and are self-sufficient and satisfied'. The NGO works to promote gender equality, advocate for women's and girls' rights, and provide comprehensive support to those affected by the large-scale invasion and subsequent humanitarian crisis. NGO Girls addresses the needs of women, girls, and children through mental health and psychosocial support, and through educational initiatives that promote sexual health and prevent gender-based violence. The organization operates 10 WGSS across Ukraine, empowers women by fostering leadership and economic independence, and strengthens local NGOs to build a sustainable humanitarian response system. It operates in 12 Ukrainian regions, with a focus on most affected territories in the North, East and South of Ukraine, and has a headquarters in Kyiv. The core team is about 50 people, mostly based in Kyiv, and the regional teams include over 250 people. In 2022-2023, the NGO's programs covered 400 000 people. Expertise in Humanitarian Response Since the first days of the large-scale invasion in 2022, the NGO Girls has stepped into the humanitarian role, although it has been engaged mostly in development before that. In the last 2 years, it has implemented more than 40 projects, most of them targeted at women and children, particularly IDPs, but also host communities representatives. As of 2024, the NGO is most actively engaged in the child protection and GBV response, including SRHR. Through strategic partnerships and community-driven initiatives, we have implemented a wide range of programs providing essential services such as shelter, education, protection and livelihood opportunities, ensuring a comprehensive response to the multifaceted challenges on the ground. The NGO 'Girls' has specialized expertise in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, recognizing the critical importance of addressing psychological well-being in crisis-affected populations. Our team of 100+ trained psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and counsellors works under the supervision of the MHPSS coordinators to deliver culturally-, gender-, age-, and trauma- sensitive MHPSS services to women, men, girls, boys, families and groups. They also work through mobile teams in the East and South of Ukraine. Expertise in Humanitarian Coordination NGO Girls is actively and prominently represented across key coordination structures in Ukraine's humanitarian landscape. As part of the Humanitarian Country Team, our Director contributes to shaping national-level humanitarian action. Within the Humanitarian NGO Platform, the Director serves as Head of the Steering Committee. As a co-founder of the Alliance of Ukrainian CSOs, we play a critical role in empowering local organizations in humanitarian efforts. Our presence in the Protection Cluster includes active engagement in sub-clusters such as GBV, Child Protection, and Mine Action, as well as regional working groups in Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia. In the Education Cluster, we work on MHPSS in education and enhancing teacher support, while in the Health Cluster, we address sexual and reproductive health and scalable psychological interventions. As co-chair of the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group (GiHA WG), NGO Girls advances gender integration in humanitarian programs. We are also part of the PSEA Network, focusing on preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and abuse. Our representation extends to the Advisory Board of the Ukrainian Humanitarian Fund, guiding resource allocation, and the Cash Working Group, contributing to cash assistance programs. Additionally, NGO Girls supports inclusivity through the LGBTIQ+ Technical Working Group, ensuring equal treatment in humanitarian action, and participates in the Expert Working Group on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, working alongside the Office of the Prosecutor General and JurFem to address CRSV. Our widespread involvement across these structures highlights our commitment to effective, inclusive, and gender-sensitive humanitarian coordination.

Empower and support youth through empowerment programs for all youth and supporting basic needs for youth facing poverty.

The Tigray Development Association is a member-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in August 1989 in Washington DC. Our primary objective is to contribute to the improvement of the livelihood of the people of Tigray through human resource development and the enhancement of health services. We address the core causes of the problems by fostering self-sufficiency at the community level, empowering Tigrayans as change agents, and developing successful collaborations with local and international communities and partners.