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Lighting the Way

“If you educate a boy, you educate an individual. If you educate a girl, you educate a nation”—African proverb

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Purpose

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To ensure that girls in East Africa can both attend school and stay in school.

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For many girls living in developing countries there are large barriers that stand in the way of receiving a quality education. These obstacles range from lack of funds, sanitation issues, and sometimes simply lacking the supplies and resources. Unfortunately, if a girl drops out of school and marries young, she will continue the cycle of poverty. An uneducated girl means later an uneducated mother who is more likely to die during childbirth or loose her child before they reach their fifth birthday.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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We believe that girls are the solution. With more than 600 million girls living in developing countries, there 600 million possibilities. However, to unlock this potential, it is necessary to address the barriers that keep girls out of school. Some solutions include: providing scholarships, feminine hygiene products, and equipping libraries with books.

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1. Join Us — donate your time and your creativity as a volunteer!
2. Donate — help support our cause.
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Mission Statement

Lighting the Way serves as a youth run non-profit campaign that works to mobilize East African diaspora youth both domestically and internationally to empower their counterparts in the Horn of Africa by making education more accessible—especially for adolescent girls.

Lighting the Way envisions a world where East African diaspora youth can unite in solving problems of civil strife and famine in their native countries, while advocating for universal education.
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Why are we different?

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Grassroots Approach

We work with communities on the ground, making all projects a community effort.

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Strength of Youth

Tap into the power of the largest generation of youth to encompass the earth.

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Invest in girls

Creating a ripple effect. The education of a girl is like a educating a nation.

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