2023–24 Report: Daring Girls

2024 donation: $25,000
Donations to date: $42,000

Our donations help Daring Girls (“Daring”) provide leadership and mentoring skills to over 2,500 young girls in the Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions of Tanzania. Through a series of 2-Day Challenge Projects and university prep courses, Daring teaches girls to take control of their future, lead positive social change in their communities, and solve environmental and health problems at the local level.

Last year, students benefited from a curriculum that focused on environmental protection and personal responsibility on a global and local scale. By learning that climate change disproportionately affects women and girls, Daring’s students were emboldened by the research that shows female leaders create more protected land, ratify more environmental treaties, create stricter climate change policies, and produce smaller climate footprints in their home country.

Then, more than 1,100 graduating scholars completed community projects that ranged from planting fruit and drought-resistant trees, to teaching younger girls how to make reusable sanitary pads, to creating a school environmental club. In the upcoming year, Daring will continue to provide women and girls an environmentally focused curriculum, fund another 50 community projects, and start a pilot initiative aimed at expanding their mentoring program into Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.