Give a Girl a Chance
NCP projects benefiting girls and women

The New Community Project believes in helping women and girls get the opportunity they need to have the future they deserve. Working with local groups to ensure the best use of funds, we forward 100 percent of donations to the projects themselves.

Girls' Education Projects

NCP provides scholarships for girls to attend school and supports training events for communities on the value of girls' education. School fees vary in different situations; for instance, fees in a southern Sudanese community are $60 per year, but a better education in nearby Uganda costs $120 annually. We also send volunteer Solidarity Workers to help out in local schools, and visit many of these communities on our Learning Tours.

$20 school supplies for a year
$35 uniform and shoes
$60/$120/$200/$250 yearly tuition-Sudan/Uganda/Nepal/Central America
$350 month's living cost-NCP volunteer

Send a girl to school!

Promotional/educational readings for fund-raising project

Amanda O'Donnell Memorial Fund for Sudan

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Women's Development Projects

NCP supports women's efforts to live full and dignified lives by assisting in small-scale projects designed by women to benefit women. These initiatives include adult literacy, small-scale economic and cultural projects, and workshops on the importance of girls' education and on increasing women's roles in civic life. Countries where we are currently involved with women's groups are Sudan, Honduras, Nepal, and Burma. In Nepal , for instance, we work with Women Empowerment, an organization devoted to promoting girls' education and providing skill training for women, including micro-credit to help women start small businesses. We also place Solidarity Worker volunteers in Sudanese communities where a primary role for them is to work with girl child education and women's cooperatives.

$20 one student's materials for adult literacy program
$50-$100 micro-credit loan to start small business
$130 bicycle for women's group
$150 sewing machine for women's cooperative
$400 four-month tailoring workshop
$750 computer for women's micro-loan association
$___ contribution toward infrastructure such as buildings to house sewing machines

Give women a hand!

Benefits of girls' education

For a young woman, the consequences of a lack of education can include early marriage, many children (generally, the more education a girl has, the fewer children she will have), a higher chance of contracting HIV/AIDs, fewer income earning opportunities, and the inability to develop her God-given abilities. She's much less likely to be trapped into demeaning or dehumanizing work in sweatshops or the sex trade. And should she end up in an abusive marital relationship, she may have the economic means to remove herself until the problem is resolved.

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"We must convince families that girls can be boys to them-that they too can be of benefit to the family," says Florence Bayoa of the New Sudan Council of Churches, NCP's partner in southern Sudan . "Especially as boys are dying of AIDS, going off to war, or leaving for neighboring countries to find employment, this is actually the case. And parents will find that girls are often more dependable and will care for them better than boys-they just haven't been given a chance. We must help the parents see how beneficial a girl's education can be to her-and also to them."