Advancing Girls' Education in Africa
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Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Scholarship Program
AGE Africa provides life-changing scholarships that cover the total cost of education for young women attending public high schools and universities throughout the Southern and Central regions of Malawi. AGE Africa's scholarships not only cover school fees but also the cost of uniforms, school supplies, personal hygiene such as sanitary pads, and transportation to or from school in order to ensure that the most needy girls stay in school and succeed.
CHATS (Creating Healthy Approaches to Success) Girls' Club Program
For the most marginalized girls in Malawi, a scholarship alone is not enough to ensure their academic success, which is why AGE Africa created CHATS—an extracurricular program designed to target the multiple causes of dropout and to meet the unique needs of poor rural girls in Malawi. CHATS (Creating Healthy Approaches to Success) is an innovative empowerment curriculum designed to:
• Develop self-confidence and agency
• Build self-advocacy and public speaking skills
• Educate young women on gender, sexual and reproductive health, and rights
• Fill critical information gaps about careers, higher education, and opportunities beyond high school
• Train girls as social entrepreneurs
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
In the short-term, AGE Africa's goal is to graduate talented and disadvantaged young women who are equipped with the knowledge, resources, and self-confidence they need to make healthy and informed choices about their futures.
In the long-term, AGE Africa seeks to narrow the retention gap, and produce better outcomes for girls nationwide by creating a model for girls' achievement and retention in public school that can inform public education throughout the country.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
AGE Africa's approach enables disadvantaged but academically talented young women to attend and finish secondary school and to pursue opportunities beyond high school by equipping them with the resources, knowledge, and confidence they need to succeed. Our comprehensive scholarships, extracurricular CHATS Girls' Club program, and post-secondary support strategies address the most prevalent causes of drop out. As a result, AGE Africa graduates educated and self-aware young women who are able to make healthy life choices, leverage their educations into viable opportunities for earned income, and self-advocate for their own life choices.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Since 2005, AGE Africa has provided 307* scholarships for girls at 22 public high schools in Malawi. We have also provided life skills and leadership training and career guidance for 1,152* girls through our CHATS Girls' Club program. Although 96% of AGE Africa scholars are first-generation high school attendees, nearly 90% complete all four years of secondary education, compared to just 6% of women nationwide! Furthermore, 87% of AGE Africa's recipients delay pregnancy and early marriage until after the age of 18, compared to just 46% nationwide. Almost half of AGE Africa's students qualify for higher education, compared to less than 1% of women in Malawi.
*Numbers are from 2015.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In 2016, AGE Africa served more than 750 girls through a combination of scholarships and/or life skills and leadership training, in addition to launching an internship program. However, in 2014, AGE Africa joined a historic commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative to scale its CHATS Girls' Clubs to serve 12,000 girls in Malawi by 2019. To deliver on this exciting goal, AGE Africa's Board of Directors unanimously adopted a four-year strategy for scaling-up CHATS focusing on 'readying' the CHATS model for growth. In 2015, AGE Africa worked to streamline, strengthen and improve both the CHATS curriculum and implementation plan in preparation for aggressive growth in the 2016-2017 school year. In 2016, AGE Africa will work with the Ministry to make these changes and to formally adopt CHATS as part of the official government supplemental curricula for public schools—this will make CHATS available to faculty, administrators and organizations well beyond AGE Africa's current reach.
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Advancing Girls' Education in Africa
Board of directorsas of 03/19/2024
Darren Smith
337 Frontier Capital
Jeanine Jackson
retired Senior Foreign Service Officer
Zokeseh Labala
WestEd
Aubryn Allyn Sidle
Cornell University
Sruti Patel
EFG Hermes
Rodrigo Briceno
Invictus Capital Partners
Jenifer Gamble
University of Kentucky
Darren Smith
337 Frontier Capital
Susan Banda-Mudiwa
@UNLOQ
Thomas Dougherty
Simmons University
Esme Chombo
U.S. Ambassador
Martin Banda
Malawian Embassy