Google is making $40 million in grants in the areas of education, technology for social good, and modern day slavery to support non-profit Organizations. 11 of the selected grantee organizations, doing valuable work in Africa, will receive grants worth over $5.8 million.
The sectors to benefit from the grant include, Girl education, Empowerment through technology, Fighting slavery and human trafficking.
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Girls’ education
Programs that focus on girls’ education in the developing world are supported. It’s a simple but remarkably powerful fact: give a girl an education and you’ll improve the chances of lifelong success not only for her, but also for her entire family and community. This is powerfully shown by the 10×10 film project, whose Google grant will help feature stories of girls from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone.
The African Leadership Academy, based in South Africa, is educating a new generation of African leaders by providing merit scholarships to promising young women across the continent. Akili Dada, based in Kenya, also supports young female leaders through education, mentoring and leadership training. Grant to Camfed will provide 2,500 girls with a year of secondary education in rural Tanzania. Meanwhile, Omega Schools Foundation in Sierra Leone are creating new schools in Freetown and will enable girls from the poorest families to attend them. Together with the Google grants in other countries, groups like these will use Google’s funds to educate more than 10,000 girls in developing countries.
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