Girls back in school
Re-enrolled and followed for at least two academic years, in partnership with CAMFED Ghana.
Impact
Numbers we can defend.
We would rather report four things we can trace than forty we cannot. Where a number comes from a partner, we say so.
By the numbers
- 2011 Founded in Accra, Ghana
- 200+ Women trained in financial literacy and enterprise
- 250 Girls returned to school with CAMFED Ghana
- 1 School and CHPS health compound built with Katiu Saa
02 What changed
Four results, traced to their source.
Reported by community leads and partner organizations. Not estimates, and not extrapolated from a single community.
Women trained
Financial literacy and business education, with six months of follow-up coaching after each cohort.
Child marriage, Katiu Saa
After community by-laws protecting girls’ education were adopted and enforced by local leaders.
School and health compound
Built with the Katiu Saa community, so education and basic care no longer require a journey.
03 Accountability
How we count.
A number is only useful if someone can challenge it. These are the three ways ours get challenged.
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Community scorecards
Each program is reviewed by the people it serves, using measures they helped define.
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Partner verification
Where a result depends on a partner, CAMFED, a clinic, a district office, they confirm the figure before we publish it.
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An annual public update
Published on this site: what changed, what did not, and what we are changing next.
70% → 1%
Child marriage in Katiu Saa, through community by-laws
04 From the field
By-laws, not charity.
In Katiu Saa, the change did not begin with a donation. It began with a meeting: community leaders, women’s groups and our team looking at what was happening to girls, and deciding to write their own rules.
Those by-laws protect a girl’s right to stay in school. Child marriage fell from roughly 70% to 1%. Girls returned to classrooms, teenage pregnancy declined, and families began to treat school as the better investment.
- By-laws written and enforced by the community itself
- A school and a CHPS health compound built with the community
- Girls re-enrolled with mentors who check in every term
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The gap closes when we move together.
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