Safe Spaces for Adolescent Girls
Safe Spaces are mentored groups proven to delay marriage by keeping girls in school. In Safe Spaces, teenage girls connect with their peers, gain critical life skills and get the support they need to bridge gaps in academic learning. The program was developed in partnership with locally-based partner organizations.
“You could say the girls are being re-educated in the fundamentals they were taught in school but never learned. The mentors sit them down and teach the girls in a practical way, and when they get back home, they share what they learn with their siblings.”
-Father of safe space participant
Impact
Learn more about child marriage and girls’ education in West and Central Africa in the World Bank’s report “Understanding and Ending Child Marriage: Insights from Hausa Communities” co-authored by OASIS Program Director, Daniel Perlman.
In the 2019-2020 Cohort…
“I share a lot of my knowledge with my two friends who have not been to school … For my two friends, I want to learn all the arguments through Hilin Mu to convince families like theirs to free their girls to get an education, to let them choose. They don’t know how to read or write; every day I advise them to convince their parents to let their younger sisters go to school.”
- Nana Nazifa Laouli, age 15