Support Kaolack Girls’ Leadership and Empowerment Camp!

It’s that time of year again...we’re starting to prepare and fundraise for Kaolack Girls' Leadership and Empowerment Camp! 

You dedicated readers will remember that last year’s Girls' Camp was a great success. For a refresher, check out this highlight video, created by our ever-talented ancienne, Caitlin Healy.

This year, the Camp’s goal remains the same: By the end of the camp, 40 girls will return to their communities with increased awareness, higher capacity for leadership, and ultimately be catalysts for change in their classrooms, cohorts, and communities. We will accomplish this goal through the following objectives: encouraging critical thinking skills, increasing participants’ self esteem, and fostering a support network among high-achieving peers across the Kaolack region.

The camp will span a week, each day with a different theme/focus- Identity, Health, Environment, Gender and Future.  There will be programming from 8AM to 10PM, from core lessons relating to the days’ focus, to energizer, craft, discussion, and sports sessions to encourage confidence, creativity, and meeting new people.

Here’s where you come in. The amazing Kaolack Girls’ Camp organizers applied for a Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP) Grant to cover the costs of the camp, so that our friends and families back home can contribute directly to this special cause. 

If you believe in this cause, and can spare a few dollars, CLICK HERE to contribute to the Kaolack Girls’ Camp Grant.

Girls' Camp 2014

We would again like to personally thank those of you who financially supported camp last year, in 2014: the Hammersley family, the Fritsche family, the San Fran Maeders, Julie and Chris Bering, Kathleen Rey, the Watts family, Schwinn and Wonder, Laurie Lachowitzer, Reverend Molly Gordon, Phyllis Keyser, The Schmaltz Family, and Tammy Jones.

If you wanted support camp last year, and weren’t able to for some reason, this is your chance! Also, as a heads up, this is probably the last time in our service that we'll ask you for money to support our work, as the Sunday School kids at the Fritsche's UU Church in Columbia, MO have already raised all of the money for our Michelle Sylvester Scholarship Program this year! Woohoo!

Thanks to you all for reading, and for caring. Your support means the world to us.

Jamm Rekk,

Kait and Peter

p.s. We'll soon be uploading a guest post from the Hammersleys about their adventures in Senegal, so stay tuned!