Girls Health Ed – Transforming the way girls see themselves

Transforming the way girls see themselves

Our mission is to advance gender equality by fostering empowered, healthy, and informed decision making in adolescent girls and young women through comprehensive health and sexuality education.

What We Do

At Girls Health Ed, we focus on the whole girl, providing a curriculum that emphasizes all aspects of health.

Nutrition

Healthy does not have to be boring! In our Nutrition workshops, girls learn about the various food groups, how they can make their favorite meals even healthier, how to read nutrition labels, and how to have fun and be creative with healthy food.

Physical Activity

Physical activity can take a variety of forms, which we go over in our Physical Activity workshops. The girls talk about the types of physical activity they enjoy doing, and the Teaching Fellows often lead the girls in a group-wide movement-based activity.

Puberty

Puberty sure can be confusing and stressful, but it’s not forever, and girls are not alone. In our Puberty & Personal Care workshops, girls learn how to take care of themselves as they deal with the many changes they experience during puberty.

Our Impact

GHE has transformed girls’ lives since 2012 with the support of our sponsors, donors, and volunteers.

girls and young women have participated in our workshops and programming since 2014.

of participants correctly answer questions about menstruation and sex after attending our workshops.

of participants have positive attitudes about themselves outside of their physical appearance.

Where We Are

Currently we operate in 4 US cities and 3 cities in Kenya. We have also done pilot programs in Hyderabad, India and Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. We have received requests for programs and partnerships in several other countries, where we hope to expand over the coming years. We are in the process of developing a virtual learning platform in order to efficiently scale and reach girls and young women in more geographic regions.

Voices

Testimonials of Teaching Fellows, girls we serve, and Board members

“Thank you to Girls Health Ed for providing us with health education and pads during the pandemic”

Khadijah

Nairobi Workshop Attendee

Your Support is Powerful!

Join our efforts to improve the lives of girls and young women through comprehensive health and sexuality education. Thanks to your continued support, we can expand our reach and help even more girls and young women change their lives.

$15 Enables one girl to participate in our full workshop series.

$30-50 covers healthy snacks and materials for every girl in a workshop.

$60 provides menstrual products to one girl for one year.

$200 provides one low-income girl a tablet to participate in our virtual workshops.

$300 covers transportation for one Teaching Fellow to conduct workshops in rural Kenya.

$1500 allows 100 girls to participate in our full workshop series

$7000 allows us to expand to one new city..