This April, I, along with 9 other volunteers, will be hosting a camp for about 20 Zambian teenage girls. This camp is a week long and tackles issues such as HIV/AIDS, women’s health, female empowerment, leadership skills and career planning. We also incorporate fun sessions such as arts and crafts, playing sports, sewing sanitary pads and making camp T-shirts. We also invite female professionals in the community to talk with the girls. After the camp is over, each volunteer, our Zambian counterpart teacher and the 2 girls return to our school to begin a Girls Club. Early Marriage, teen preganacy and girls dropping out of school after grade 7 are huge issues in rural Zambia and this camp can go along way to combating this issue.
So what can you do about it? Well, I'm so glad you asked!
Camp G.L.O.W is grant-funded through Peace Corps though the majority of our funding comes from friends and family back home.
To donate please click on this link:
https://donate.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=13-611-008
The grant is under Perry,S. and all money donated will go directly to helping these young girls. Any amount of money, even just $5 dollars, helps. (Euros are accepted as well)
We also accept in-kind donations (care packages). During the camp we do several arts-and-crafts projects with the girls and much of the materials are very difficult to find in Zambia and basically impossible to find up-country here in Luapula.
We are kindly requesting donations from family and friends in the states in
order to help make this camp a great success! Here’s a list of some
of the supplies that we are looking for:
-Craft supplies (beads for bracelets and necklaces, elastic string,
pipe cleaners, fabric pens, puffy paint, supplies for t-shirt
decorating, etc.) This is very much enjoyed by all the camp
participants!!!
-Sewing needles and thread
-Toiletries (soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, lotion,
combs for curly hair, sanitary pads, manicure kits)
-Notebooks, notepads and pens/pencils
-Fun accessories (headbands, hair clips, hair elastics, plastic jewelry, etc.)
-Small purses or makeup bags
-Lip gloss or nail polish
order to help make this camp a great success! Here’s a list of some
of the supplies that we are looking for:
-Craft supplies (beads for bracelets and necklaces, elastic string,
pipe cleaners, fabric pens, puffy paint, supplies for t-shirt
decorating, etc.) This is very much enjoyed by all the camp
participants!!!
-Sewing needles and thread
-Toiletries (soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, lotion,
combs for curly hair, sanitary pads, manicure kits)
-Notebooks, notepads and pens/pencils
-Fun accessories (headbands, hair clips, hair elastics, plastic jewelry, etc.)
-Small purses or makeup bags
-Lip gloss or nail polish
-Plain white t-shirts (mostly sized small and medium)
-Socks and underwear (size small)
-Anything you think our camp participants would enjoy!!
Mail is very slow in between US/Europe and Africa and can often take over a month to get here. If you send a package please please send it before the end of February.
Please address the package to :
Camp G.L.O.W. Luapula
c/o Hannah Lippe, PCV
Peace Corps Zambia
P.O. Box 710150
Mansa, Luapula, Zambia
AFRICA
Please, Help us make this camp a huge success for our girls, Your help can truly make a huge impact in their lives!
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