EDUCATE EMPOWER ENABLE

Girls Leadership Camp

The Lugari Girls Leadership and Mentoring Training Camp, is a project in Kenya operated by the Canadian not for profit Willing Hearts International Society Canada which is based in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

The camp curriculum is designed to empower and enable the girls to become leaders, with the aim of them returning to their schools and mentoring other girls with what they have learned at camp.

The 10 day camp has been running since 2012, starting with just a few girls and growing to over 200 girls each year.

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Empowering Girls Through Knowledge and Skills

The camp curriculum includes:

Project Management; The girls are asked to take their project back to their village to be implemented with local girls invited to help.. Projects taught at camp include;

Making vertical gardens from readily available grain sacks. Enabling a family to feed themselves plus have left overs available to sell.
Raising chickens. Enabling a family to feed themselves plus have left overs available to sell.
Menstruation, hygiene & female health; A doctor attends the camp to explain menstruation & what is happening to their bodies, cervical cancer, breast self examination, how to avoid getting pregnant, morning after pill, how to get help if they are being abused.
The Soroptimist Dream It Be It curriculum and career fair.
Management & leadership training.
Sewing underwear from old t-shirts. Enabling the girls to be able to make their own (many have never owned underwear). This class also covers setting boundaries about private parts. The girls are given sewing kits and encouraged to teach their sisters and friends how to make underwear.