The Five-Phase Transitioning Process for a Disadvantaged Girl

Phase I: High School

A disadvantaged girl in Kenya overcomes massive odds when she is awarded sponsorship to one of Kenya’s High Schools dedicated to educating girls. For four years she lives and grows emotionally, intellectually and spiritually in a nurturing and motivating environment. During this period of self discovery and actualization, she is guided, encouraged and motivated by her mentor through a structured mentoring model and methodology that connects Gratitudes, Goals and Giving Back.

Upon graduation, without further intervention, she will return to the circle of poverty from which she came. All of the hard work and charitable resources that enabled her to graduate high school become marginal investments unless she is empowered and enabled to continue an educational and life-skilling process that transitions her through Phases II—V. If empowerment without enablement is motivational malpractice, enablement without empowerment is charitable contribution malpractice. In the Global Give Back Circle, the empowerment provided by the mentors is linked to the enablement provided by the financial partners, whereby 1 + 1 = 10.

Next: Phase II