The Female Empowerment Programme

The Female Empowerment Programme, previously named the Kapani School Project, offers extra support to young girls in rural Zambia through academic workshops, extracurricular opportunities and empowering education. Their mission is to inspire young girls to believe in their self-worth and build on their self-esteem, literacy and overall academic performance.

In 2015, The Female Empowerment Programme started a Girl’s Club at Yosefe Primary school. The aim was to create a safe space and an environment for girls in which they could feel comfortable exploring different ideas outside of their normal classroom environment.

Through the club, the Female Empowerment Programme has introduced girls to a variety of different career options for women, exposed them to strong and successful local female entrepreneurs, held sessions on relationships, menstruation and sexuality, and at the girls’ request, implemented English study lessons to help them improve their reading and writing skills. Since we started supporting the programme, we have raised £7,300 and with that, fully funded 26 young girls to join the Female Empowerment Programme.

We have enabled the programme to double the number of girls they were able to teach; reaching another chiefdom that had no services for preadolescent girls struggling in school.

We have also enabled the programme to split Yosefe Club into two distinct groups based on the girls’ age. The next club was subsequently formed at a new school called The Matula Primary School which focuses on grades 5-7, and allows the staff to teach more mature content, particularly at the grade 7 level.

Our goal for 2023 is to raise £10,000 to keep the programme running at Matula and ensure that all the girls currently enrolled can complete the three year programme.

£7,300

Girls fully funded to join the Female Empowerment Programme directly from our donations. Raised to support the Female Empowerment Programme to date.