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. Read more about our approach and our partners here.

Girls' Education Projects

Check out our girls' education video!

NCP supports girls' education through tuition scholarships and by providing other items essential for school attendance, including uniforms and shoes, school supplies, sanitary materials, and local staff to administer the program. Every year, NCP helps some 200 girls go to school in Sudan, Burma and Nepal. We work through our partners in a given community, who assess needs, select recipients, and monitor progress. And we visit these girls and their schools on our Learning Tours.

"NCP assistance goes to the most vulnerable girls in some of the most marginalized areas of our world: (clockwise from top) Burmese hill tribe girls; Toposa tribal girls from South Sudan; and children like these two being raised by their grandmother in the Nepalese community of Khandanjung—their mother had left, the father turned to drinking, the grandmother lost an eye and now supports the three of them by weaving straw mats. D. Radcliff photos 2011/12

Wanna help?!
$30 school supplies for a year
$80/$180/$400 annual school tuition: Girl in Burmese delta or Toposa area of South Sudan / in Nimule, South Sudan / in Nepal or Burma (boarding)
$18 personal hygiene kit – South Sudan (two packages of Always pads, six bars of soap, one petticoat)
100 percent of donations go to the projects themselves—really!

Send a girl to school!
Sarah sent 26 girls to school--see how!
GAGAC powerpoint and script for your church, camp, school or personal viewing!

Women's Development Projects

NCP supports women's development efforts by our partners in South Sudan, El Salvador, Burma and Nepal.

• In Nepal, we send around $10,000 per year to Women Empowerment, a small grassroots group that organizes training programs for women, including tailoring, English lessons and training to be community health workers.
  
  

• In the southwest delta of Burma, we provide $7,000 per year to assist women in making and selling thatch, producing fish paste and dried fish for sale, raising livestock, and starting small businesses. In the hill country of middle Burma, we providing sewing machines for women from ethnic communities, both so that they can afford to wear traditional clothing as well as earn income for their households.

• In El Salvador, we've pledged $3000 per year to help women start small businesses such as plant nurseries—in many communities, an alternative to the back-breaking and low-paying work of picking coffee.
  
  

• In Sudan, we're sending $10,000 per year for tailoring programs and backyard gardening initiatives. Women there often have to resort to making home-brew to provide for their families. Women deserve something better! Help us help them achieve it!

Give women a hand!

Amanda O'Donnell Memorial Fund for Sudan

“To be born a daughter is a lost life.” Nepali proverb Click here to find out what the world's women are up against--and what you can do about it!

Why not child sponsorship?

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.

Promotional/educational readings for fund-raising project

Four stories of girls and women at risk

Donate now or send gifts to New Community Project, 718 Wilder Street, Elgin, IL 60123

"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."