Beyond ABC’s: Giving Girls a Chance to Succeed

When Sarah first joined CODE’s Girls’ Accelerated Learning Initiative (GALI) in 2017, she was a 10-year-old sitting in a Grade One classroom. Having already repeated Grade One twice before, Sarah was struggling to learn to read and to advance. With her parents not necessarily seeing the “return” on their decision to enroll Sarah in school, her days in the classroom were most likely numbered.

Through GALI’s small-group afterschool tutoring, Sarah’s learning accelerated and double promotions over a two-year period allowed her to catch up to a more age-appropriate grade. The program, established by CODE, an Ottawa-based international development organization, and implemented by its local partner, the WE-CARE Foundation in Monrovia, aims to give girls like Sarah an academic lifeline...

 

READ THE STORY: www.globalheroes.com/code-gives-girls-a-chance-to-succeed/