Help Girls Learn & Thrive in Senegal

Can you imagine being a 15-year-old girl, forced to marry a stranger who’s more than twice your age?

That’s not an uncommon reality for girls in Senegal.

When a girl becomes a wife, household duties don’t leave time for education. Child marriage is the number one reason girls in Senegal drop out of school. And she could face a slew of health risks — or even death — when forced to have a child while she’s still a child herself.

Plan USA is working with communities in Kédougou, Senegal to help girls take their power back through our Girls Learn & Thrive program. When you support Girls Learn & Thrive, you’re giving girls the tools they need to stay in school and out of marriage. The girls themselves influence every step of this project through our unique GirlEngage approach — from designing activities, to leading community projects, to measuring progress for girls’ rights.

Will you help girls in Senegal stay protected from child marriage?

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Your donation today to Plan’s Girls Learn & Thrive program will directly support girl-designed and girl-led activities in Kédougou, Senegal, using Plan’s GirlEngage approach, including:

Life skills trainings, where girls learn how to build confidence, practice decision-making, set goals and advocate for themselves to stay in school and out of marriage.
Community action projects focused on advocacy for girls’ rights, such as radio ads and street plays, as well as direct services like distributing period products.
Mother-daughter groups, where girls can talk with their mothers about sex and marriage in safe spaces and express the futures that they want for themselves.
Fathers’ clubs, where men can participate in positive parenting trainings, find peer-to-peer support, discuss ways to challenge traditional gender norms in parenting and learn how to become advocates.
Boys’ clubs for boys and young men to understand masculinity and gender roles, learn how to create nurturing, nonviolent relationships and discover ways to work with girls to achieve gender equality.