February 2015 Coordinator Report

The month of February has been a very short and exciting month full of activities. The interns who joined us have been great assets to the club in enabling it run its activities. We managed to register the entire club member in different schools and we are looking forward to the next month’s activities.

Entrepreneurship To Launch in Siaya

The entrepreneurship project is to be launched on the 7^th of March in Sigomre. The participants in this workshop are going to be around 50 pupils selected form all the Girl Power Clubs in Siaya site. We expect them to share the information they learn with the other club members and help them in managing their group projects. The survey conducted in January on this shows a positive outlook towards business and entrepreneurship.

During the visit to Sigomre in March, we are also expected to hold a talk in Got Osimbo girls on menstruation and over bleeding. This was a request by the patron of the club in this school, since there are very many cases of girls excessively bleeding during menstruation.  

Girl Power Clubs May Go To Busia!

We are progressing with plans to ensure that the new clubs in Busia are up and running. They have finished their registration and submitted the forms to us. They are ten new clubs in with twenty members each. We plan to visit the site and the schools soon. In this area we are partnering with an organization on the ground called HWAY (Helping Women and Youth). This organization focuses on children girls and youth, on two areas: disease and poverty eradication. Under poverty eradication they do fabric making, table banking, Poultry keeping, farming, and Mary go rounds. Mr. Bernard Wangira is the manager of the organization.

Improvement of Presentations In Sessions

The life skills session coverage is going on well although exams and midterm breaks are really affecting the sessions. The girls are enjoying the session a lot. Role play, group work and games are used to teach the sessions. This has led to a more interactive system of learning and the girls are really enjoying themselves a l

Kibera Girl Power Office Re-Opens For The Year

The Girl Power Club office in Kibera is operation. The Project Assistant and interns are on site every working day. We hope to have girls visit the office for sessions as we progress on.

Use Of Kibera Tennis and Sports Court

Regarding the tennis and sports court in kibera only one school that is Nazarine Primary has given dates that they will use the court. We are waiting for feedback from St. Catherine and Nairobi Day. Olympic primary, Olympic high school and Karen C have playing fields.

February Monthly Girl Power Clubs Sports Day

February ended on a great note with the Girl Power Club sports day.  All schools were invited and but three failed to come; Huruma girls, Karen C high school, Nairobi day. They informed us that they had ongoing exams. The schools that were present include Olympic primary, Olympic high school, St. Catherine and Nazarine primary.  The patrons present were Mr. Orao from Oympic high, Mr. William Ochieng of St. Catherine and Mr. Charles of Nazarine Primary school. Mr. Ben Okoth of St .Catherine came along with the patron from St. Catherine. We played four sports: touch rugby, football, netball and volleyball. These games were refereed by the girls themselves, which was an excellent leadership development.

Joy Akinyi

Project Coordinator

Girl Power Clubs Africa

GIRL POWER REACH OUT WEEK ENDS THE YEAR!

December is always a mass of activities, students exited to finally end an academic year – well at least for those in the 8-4-4 System of education. With Christmas bells ringing around the corner, exams are finally over and you get to hang out with your friends at home if you are not or are lucky to travel to the village until its time to get back to school for a whole brand new year!

For us at Girl Power we get super busy trying to catch the girls before they all get lost in the frenzy of activities holidays come with especially, December! Every holiday we try to make sure we offer the girls ‘’a piece of our hearts’ our passion and what keeps us going, the reason we exist –yes it is for them!  A whole week, at least 3 to 4  days of a bit of everything life skills, sports, entrepreneurial  skills , some art, dance , a safe space and many new girls that come every holiday so they can make friends with. A place they feel they want to keep coming back if not for the learning, then at least the fun in everything else, which they like most.

This time we had a total of 183 girls . 92 under 12 years and 91 above 13 years. 80 % were new, from around Langata, thanks to a very excited lady who has been all excited and enjoys what we do with and for the girls. We call her mama Jacky.  She made sure not only her daughter and her niece attended but their mass of friends who brought others too. Our own Girl Power who couldn’t attend from Kibera because they were going back to their villages, passed word to those who stayed behind.

Day 1: Tue 3^rd Dec 2013

We had our traditional opening, with ice breakers and then an hour session on Leadership and Core Values. Those girls who were above 13 years, were lead by our own Project Assistants Jayoung Naphtalie Margaret  and Paullete Akinyi.  The under-12 girls were led by Queen Gwen, using the Goal Book Approach.  While Dr. Liz Odera and  Coach Mary Florence  took on cameras.  Later in the day Mary Florence took some of girls through basic DST and sharing real stories of girls like them

Day 2: 4^th December

The morning session was all about Goal, with Under-12 girls working on , ‘’Pin the trash on the can ‘’ with together with Queen., while the older ones discussed ‘’Role Models and Reaching out to our Community.’’ with Paullete, Jayoung and Mary Florence. The evening was a general session on hygiene and reproductive health & responsible relationships with  Coach Rehema Akinyi and Mary Florence.

Day : 5^th December

This was our ‘learning basic bead work skills ‘’ day as well as ‘’Sports day’’.  The girls really enjoyed the day, and there were plenty of smiles and chatter, as they learned to design necklaces and wrist bands for the upcoming women’s meeting in Uganda, with Susan Gathu improving on the finished product. They then played tennis with coaches Evelyn, Jamin and Rich, and basketball with coach Amoko, followed by skipping rope and other singing games on their own.

Day: 6^th December

This was the older girls’ fun day. Girls that graduated from primary and high school had their mini pool party. All day in the pool with barbequed food, soft drinks, music and dancing! They thoroughly enjoyed their day and did not realise that the evening was wearing in!

9^th to 13^th December 2013

 Once again, Girl Power got one of life’s rare but meaningful and great chances to have two of her own represent the entire organisation on a South to South Exchange in Uganda, thanks to Vital Voices. Dr. Liz Odera and Jayoung Margaret joined a team of 50 women from over 25 countries across the world. It was a great opportunity to learn, collaborate, share, connect and exchange best. It is always humbling for us to be part of such great It is one of the things we are forever grateful for!

Lots of Thanks to

Dr. Odera for the great leading through the year, all Sadili  and Girl Power Staff, our volunteers and people who occasionally step in to give a hand…Susan Gathu and one of our girls from Huruma Girls who was great help, Purity Ndemo. , all the girls that have been with us in 2013 and before, our Face Book friends, those who ‘liked’’ our pages, twitter followers, blog readers, Women Win and all her partners for the support and taking time to mentor our girls through the year, LVCT –Kenya , KMWA and Vital Voices for helping us end year in a great note!

Story & Report done by

Jayoung Naphtalie Margaret

Project Assistant

Girl Power Clubs Africa

and edited by Dr. Liz Odera

Head Professional

Sadili Oval Sports Academy.

www.sadili.com

LEADERSHIP MEETING THIRD TERM

REPORT ON THE GIRL POWER GOAL CHAMPIONS /GIRL LEADERS  

14^TH SEPTEMBER 2013, AT THE SADILI OVAL  , 11.00 A.M. -1.00 P.M.

Introduction

The meeting was presided over by Project Assistant, Jayoung Naphtalie Margaret, Paulette Akinyi and Queen Gwen.

 Agenda for the meeting

1.     Welcome to term and introduction

2.     Term two review

3.     Term three programme

4.     How to correctly use and fill the sessions form

5.     Running and reporting of sessions

6.     Follow  on previous terms reports

7.     School visit confirmation

8.     Issuing of this terms guidebook, blank session forms

9.      A.O.Bs

Schools Present/Represented

1.     Holy Unity Primary

2.     St, Catherine

3.     Malezi Primary

4.     Olympic High School

Guests:  Raila Primary- Amina Hassan

The total attendance of Girls to this meeting  was 34.

Girls Present

Holy Unity

Brenda Adhiambo

Lilian Yvone

Faith Akinyi

Vanessa Adhiambo

Cynthia Ombete

Viola Akinyi

Winnie Mijoro

Benta Anyango

Pauline Akinyi

Vivian Achieng

Veronica Akuma

Eunice Nyasuba

Elizabeth Awour

Christabell Mmbone

Sharon Makungu

Asha Abdul

ST. CATHERINE

Sofia Adhiambo

Quinter Awour

ST. STEPHEN

Elizabeth Sheila

OLYMPIC HIGH

Rose Mwawasi

Charlott Hazel

Damaris Loren

Joan Matendechere

Faith Bochere

Sylnia Akoth

Pauline Gitau

Leila Anyango

Habiba Wanjiku

MALEZI  PRIMARY

Irene Mtimba

Pauline Ayuma

Ephrase Ondisa

Winbroder Akoth

Min 1/14/09/13 Welcome and intros

The girls had an introduction to the day’s programme and also had a chance to meet Girl Power’s new Project Assistants, Queen and Paulette.

Min2/14/09/13 term 2 review

We had a run through last term’s programme in relation to sessions and reporting of the same for all the schools present for both Goal , Goal plus and sports

Min3/14/09/13 term 3 programme

Introduced the girls to Module 3 & 4 (Be Empowered & Be Money Savvy) and the specific sessions that we all will be covering and the running of the sessions

Min 4,5,6/14/09/13 how to report

We discussed agendas, 4,5 &  6 together. How to correctly fill out the sessions report and the termly reports, collections and handing them back on time, filling the form as the out the form as the sessions proceed as not to forget day, date, or attendees. We also asked the girls to take down the correct full names of their club members, right age or birth dates for them

Min 7,8//14/09/13

We read out the visit schedule so that the girls are aware that in some cases where the will have had sessions we would like to see how they done, reported and we can collect them  for earlier reporting. We also issued the present with a Goal module 3& 4 per school as well as all other sessions documents to record s for us to be able to have  data working on

A.O.Bs

We had all the schools give us their club days and hours and have scheduled another goal champions meeting which tentatively shall be on 20^th October

Goal Champions Minutes Compiled by;

Jayoung Naphtalie Margaret

Project Assistant