Upcoming Objectives

upcoming 2022 objectives

1 | Maintain all 1,500 girls enrolled in the program

When we originally developed our strategic plan for 2022, we set out to sponsor 1,750 girls. However, what we did not anticipate at the time was that school supply costs, school uniform materials, and tuition fees would nearly double with the global economic downturn. To best fulfill our commitments to the 1,500 girls currently enrolled in the program, we'll be re-enrolling all students again this year, but we will not be adding the 250 sponsorships that we initially hoped for. While we're saddened to not serve more girls in need this year, we believe that this will allow us to better serve our students and partner communities in the long-term.

2 | Launch our teacher training program

One of the on-going challenges our schools have shared is that up to 60% of their teachers work as volunteers. This is mostly due to a lack of funding in rural schools. The good news is that there are amazingly generous people in our partner communities that have worked for years without pay to ensure children have teachers. Unfortunately, this leads to much higher rates of teacher truancy, a lack of teaching resources for volunteers, and inconsistent learning outcomes.

So we thought to ourselves - rather than having program coordinators travel out to our villages to distribute our curriculum periodically throughout the year, why not hire some of the local volunteer teachers as part-time program coordinators for S H E? We can provide teacher training resources to help them improve their regular classroom environments, and they can help distribute our programming more regularly throughout the year in a way that our students can best relate to the curriculum.

We'll be rolling this program out in two of our selected partner villages this fall, and we hope to learn what it will take to successfully implement this program throughout all of our partner schools in the coming years.

03 | Extend our S H E Cooperative and build our earned revenue

Most of our S H E community knows that we strive to build a social enterprise model that enables us to earn revenue to sustain our programs and further increase the impact of every donor dollar we receive. In 2021, we launched the first S H E cooperative to increase our job creation for marginalized women. With the amazing success of this program, we couldn't be more excited that our women are making the transition from project-based employees to fully registered team members this September!

Not only does this keep our women gainfully employed, but this also allows us to expand our production of school uniforms, reusable menstrual supplies, and other revenue generating projects throughout the year.