Give a Girl a Chance
Give a Girl a Chance is NCP's program to help girls and women around the world have a
decent chance for a decent life. For the girls, this means keeping them in school in places like
South Sudan, where 90 percent of girls don't complete elementary school, and a 15-year-old
girl is more likely to die giving birth than to graduate from high school. Or rural Malawi,
where nearly half of all girls are married before they turn 18, in part due to the inaccessibility of
school (high school is a 7 to 14 mile walk each way in rural areas). We offer scholarships, shoes,
hygienic items, bicycles - whatever they need to succeed. As for women, they are often reduced
to near-slave labor, the sex trade or work that lacks dignity or opportunity. Through microloans,
agricultural programs or skills training organized by our partners, we give them better choices.
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Working through grassroots partners in Nepal,
Myanmar, South Sudan, Rwanda, Congo, and Malawi
these programs are carried out respectfully, effectively
and efficiently. (At right, we provide trafficking
survivors in Nuwakot, Nepal with 200 lemon saplings
each as an income generation project via our partner
Shakti Samuha. Shakti staff and NCP facilitator
Isha Shrestha in middle.)
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See all this goodness in action: here's the album
from our 2023 South Sudan Learning Tour.
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​​Here's more info on NCP support of girls' education; more on women's tailoring programs here
and microloans here, including options for designated gifts.
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Our A Girl and a Bike program helps high school girls in
Malawi who are 7-14 miles away from school –
the miles a logistical challenge, and the money scarce as
climate change has ruined the local farm economy. So
$200 gets a girl a bike and first term tuition.
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We met many of these young riders on our 2022 Learning
Tour to Malawi.
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NCP director David Radcliff interviewed on programs with girls, women and more.
ALSO! Along with all the other benefits, educating girls and empowering women are two
of the top ten things the world needs to do to get a handle on climate change, according to
the book Drawdown. And a renown conservationist replied "Educate girls" when asked about
the most important thing to do to preserve Africa's wildlife.
Give girls and women the chance they need for the life they deserve!
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As always, 100 percent of donations to our Special Projects go to the programs
themselves - really!
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Check out these half sheet promo flyers!
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Zoom presentation on the challenges
facing women in East Africa, Myanmar
and Nepal, covering issues ranging
from child marriage to trafficking to
domestic violence to maternal mortality
to climate change, narrated by
NCP's David Radcliff --->
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Meet Josephine from South Sudan. She ran away from her home as a 10-year-old to escape the fate of her elder sister – being sold off in marriage by her uncle to an old man. After six days of walking with no food or water, she arrived at Blessed Bakhita Girls School in the village of Narus, where she was welcomed and received a scholarship from NCP’s Give a Girl a Chance fund to attend. Here’s her story, in her own words. [Notes: in their culture, when the father dies, his brother takes control of his family, including the right to earn payment in cows for any of the daughters (his nieces) he marries off to other men. “Primary Five” is the fifth of eight grades of elementary school. “Mama Gladys” named at the end is Gladys Mananyu, NCP’s contact with the South Sudan Council of Churches who facilitates some of our work in South Sudan.]
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I'm here to introduce myself by saying my name is Josephine Nakai Lomoi. I am in primary five. I come from Kaldo Village.
What brought me to school is I have the brother to my father who is my uncle. He is ruling us badly since we have no father. He forced my older sister to marry an old man. My sister refused the man for five years. And my uncle was still forcing her to that man. And my sister then accepted the man. So my uncle received cows. After he received the cows, it was his joyfulness.
I was 10 years old. So I took example from my sister. I ran to school because I knew he would do the same thing to me. Before I started my journey to school, another girl asked me if I was ready to go to school. I said yes, I am ready. Then she told me we are going tomorrow. So we went together.
We took six days on the way to Narus. Without food or water. We arrived at school in the morning. We were received by sister Jane. Then we explain to her the whole story. She took us to primary one. She gave us books and pencils.
Now the changes I have got in the school are: I know how to speak in English, how to write, how to read. Sister Jane taught us how to make tablecloths and bedsheets. I am a footballer and a debater. Just to mention a few. I am very glad for the changes I have got in the school.
I would like to conclude my saying thank you NCP for supporting me. May God bless you for a great work you are doing. May God make you free to do everything you were doing to continue supporting me until I finish my education.
In my future, I would like to become a minister of education in order to help my elders and my brothers and my sisters, who are back in the village. And to create education for young ladies who are forced to marry. And to advise my village members to stop giving girls to old men when they are still young. Thank you.
May God bless Mama Gladys and NCP.
100 percent of donations go to the programs! (of course!)
Some 30,000 Nepali girls and women are trafficked into the sex trade every year, destined for India, the Middle East and East Asia, and even Africa. These ethnic Chepang girls from high in the hills might have ended up there or being married off as young as 13 or 14, as they were unable to continue their education after fifth grade due to poverty. We're raising the $200 per girl needed to help them continue their education and another $200 to provide lunch for them each day, given their 7-hour walk up and down a mountain to school. We currently support 27 girls. More here.
Tailoring training programs help women learn skills and earn money for themselves and their families.
100 percent of donations to these projects go to the programs themselves – really!