Women’s Global Education Project

Current donation: $30,000

Women's Global Education Project (WGEP) empowers women and girls in rural regions of sub-Saharan Africa to build better lives and foster more equitable communities. Our donation will allow WGEP to give 210 women training on how to build climate-smart cookstoves and prepare 450 students to lead plastic reduction cleanups and reforestation efforts along the Sine-Saloum Delta.

Why They’re Climate Smart

In the Fatick region of Senegal, roughly 78 percent of the labor force works as a subsistence farmer and earns less than $2 per day. The region is highly susceptible to drought and high temperatures, and despite its small size, Senegal is one of the top ocean plastic polluting countries in the world.

WGEP is tackling those problems head on. Through a series of educational programs, comprehensive scholarships, after-school clubs that promote gender equality, leadership workshops, and parent support and community engagement meetings, they are actively dismantling the structural barriers that prevent girls from succeeding at school or leading societal change. With the Rick Steves' Europe donation they will add a climate-smart element to their program and firmly place women at the forefront of helping their communities contribute less to climate change.

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