Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie

Published purpose

The " Resilient Girls and Education (FIÈRES)” project aims to empower women and girls in the Segou, Mopti and Timbuktu regions of Mali, especially the most vulnerable populations, through improved access to quality, equitable, adapted and flexible education and learning. Project activities include: (1) raising awareness and mobilizing community and religious leaders, local authorities and women's and youth associations about the rights of girls and teenagers. This awareness-raising and mobilization will also focus on the primacy of education; (2) organizing consultation activities around the reopening of schools and the return or recruitment of qualified teachers; (3) developing learning continuation or catch-up mechanisms adapted to the needs of girls and teenagers in the event of insecurity, health crisis, malfunction or closure of targeted schools; (4) implementing non-formal educational alternatives adapted to reach the most vulnerable girls and teenagers; (5) implementing protection mechanisms focusing on health and safety in schools and on the roads leading to them; and (6) developing a quality vocational training program adapted to the needs of women and teenagers leaving the formal school system.