In rural areas, access to proper menstrual hygiene materials and education remains a significant challenge. Targeted sessions providing reusable period packs and training on menstrual health have a significant impact empowring girls in rural schools. Practical Support The initiative, funded by Q3 Strategy, reached girls aged 13-16 at an elementary school in Oromia, ensuring that …
Elsa Gezahegn King has been a trustee on our UK board for six years. She has a background in girls and womens equality working in both Ethiopia and the UK and provides vital support and guidance to the Together We Learn teams on approaches to girls’ education, working effectively with communities, and much more besides! …
What is Future Girls? Founded in 2021, Future Girls is one of our flagship programmes bringing together everything we have learned about girls education in past and present projects. We grew to understand that, amongst other things, the burden of household work, risks to health and safety, and a lack of resource for managing periods, …
Homes for Single Mothers For those living below the poverty line, it can be difficult to break the cycle of low wages spent on basic necessities only. The families that we support through our Student Sponsorship programme are committed to keeping their children in school so that they can access the opportunities that education provides. …
Ethiopia has the 14th highest prevalence of child marriage in the world, many girls are at risk of gender based violence, and they are more likely to drop out of higher education than boys. The Lijinete women’s network is a community project set up in 2019 to identify and support girls who are at risk. …
Did you know that less than 3% of charity trustees are under 30? The LSE are partnering with the Young Trustees Movement to change that by promoting young trusteeships and talking to members of the LSE community who already are a young trustee! In their latest blog they are talking to none other than Together …
Introducing our new girls’ education project, Future Girls Future Girls: Confidence in Education is a project that not only aims to ensure that girls are able to attend school, but that they are able to attend with confidence. Enabling girls to achieve at school has a ripple effect of positive change across communities and down …
Ethiopia has the 14th highest prevalence of child marriage in the world, many girls are at risk of gender based violence, and they are more likely to drop out of higher education than boys. The Lijinete women’s network is a community project set up in 2019 to identify and support girls who are at risk. …
Sponsorship: Kalkidan’s Story Kalkidan was born in Asebeteferi in the Oromiya region of Ethiopia in 1997. When she was five years old, Kalkidan’s mother died and her father married another woman. Kalkidan moved to Bishoftu to live with her uncle. Kalkidan’s father did not support her, so her uncle became her guardian but, after some …
Sponsorship: Muluyay’s Story Muluyay was an ordinary girl who liked to play hide-and-seek. As she got older, she helped her mother with the housework; cleaning, cooking, doing the laundry, selling tella (local beer) and fetching water. She was a good student, in the top 10 of her class, and she liked to play volleyball. However, …