Empowered Girls Dialogue

According to the UN Adolescent Girls Task Force, there are two key means to unleash girls ’ potential: 1) Promote and empower adolescent girl leaders; and 2) Enhance Community Dialogue.

It is proven that investing in girls creates a domino effect that yields multiple benefits, not only for individual girls, and the women they become; but for families, communities, and countries. With funding from the Civil Society in Development (CISU) and Crossing Borders, Empowered Girls Dialogue (EGD) is designed to empower marginalized Moroccan teen girls to gain a voice for change on the factors that marginalise them in their everyday life. Originally launched in 2020, EGD expanded in 2021 with: to support girls in leading dialogues in their own community anywhere. With COVID-19 restrictions lifted in fall 2021, we held:

With all of these learnings, Soar Community Dialogues were officially piloted in 2021:

EGD also supports providing our core empowerment programming Soar in a Box for 180 total Soar Girls in 9 communities across Morocco, and supports girls to launch their own Soar Clubs. 18 grassroots women facilitators are paid to implement the program in their own communities. EGD's ultimate goal is:

"I want to show my community that girls

are not meant to

only be in the house, but rather they can go to school and be future leaders. I want to help all girls have a better future. " - F a t i m a E z z a h r a

"If you asked me the first day I stepped in the training center to plan a community dialogue I would have thought it was impossible for me, but

now I am not afraid to plan and manage it

alone.

- S a f a

"I want to help others

challenge society ’ s taboos

which diminishes their value.

" - N o u r

"I am so motivated to make a change in my community. I hope one day I will be a

feminist that all the world will

know.

" - S a l m a

"Being a Soar Girl means having the responsibility of spreading awareness and

changing misbeliefs within

my society. I want to challenge the status quo and fix some of the issues that girls encounter.