Give a Girl a Chance
NCP projects benefitting 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

NCP promotes girls' education through tuition scholarships and by providing other items essential for school attendance, including uniforms and shoes, school supplies, and sanitary materials. In a given year, NCP will help as many as 150 girls go to school in Sudan, and Nepal. School fees vary in different situations, as do other costs for school attendance. We work through our partners in a given locale, who assess needs, select recipients, and monitor progress. We also send volunteer Solidarity Workers to help out in local schools, and visit many of these communities on our Learning Tours.

$30 school supplies for a year: Sudan or Nepal
$40/$120 semester/annual school tuition: Sudan
$250 year's tuition: Nepal
$18 personal hygiene kit - Sudan (two packages of Always pads, six bars of soap, one petticoat)

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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 skills-training workshops. Countries where we are currently involved with women's groups are Sudan, El Salvador, Nepal, and Burma. In Nepal, we work with Women Empowerment, an organization devoted to promoting girls' education and providing skill training for women. In the Cyclone Nargis-ravaged southwest delta of Burma, we are sending funds for women to make and sell thatch; they will then use the profits to produce fish paste and dried fish for sale. In the hill country of middle Burma, we providing sewing machines for Paloung, Danu, and Taunguyoe communities, in part so they can afford to wear traditional clothing along with earning income for their households. In El Salvador, we've pledged $3000 per year for the coming three years to help women have the means to start small businesses—in many communities, an alternative to the back-breaking work of picking coffee. In Sudan, we're sending $15,000 per year for tailoring programs, backyard gardening initiatives, and adult literacy. 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!

$20 one student's materials for adult literacy program
$35 thatch-making supplies for one household
$75 tools, seeds, fencing for a backyard garden
$250 micro-credit loan to start small business
$150 sewing machine for women's cooperative
$400 four-month tailoring workshop

Give women a hand!

Give a Girl a Chance girls' education powerpoint for children & youth!

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

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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."