Batonga case study

Transforming Africa. One girl at a time. How one woman, inspired a movement for change.

Brand Communications The agency for the new world The Batonga Foundation offers sustainable long-term intervention, focused on funding girls from primary to higher education in Africa, alongside pragmatic support for schools. Brand Communications were tasked to revitalise the new focus of the Batonga brand to show how the organisation captures ongoing institutional support.

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Based on the differentiation of an Our Mission Batonga in Action Country profiles Batonga Girls News Get involved Get in-touch 01 July 2013 Batonga’s mission is to support both secondary school The work of Batonga in Africa is to: Benin Meet Judith, a Batonga Scholar in Cameroon in-depth understanding of Granting scholarships: Batonga is supporting 229 girls in continuing their education You can donate online or by post to a specific project or to the organisation. Batonga Foundation Join Mailing List and higher education for girls in Africa. We are doing Batonga is a Top-Rated Women’s 60% “Educating girls in into secondary school. All of the girls were selected by community members who Judith, a 20 year-old Batonga scholar, was left blind after an accident she had at age Grant scholarships for girls to attend existing secondary In choosing the individual girls, schools and this by granting scholarships, building secondary Africa gives them the are closely involved in ensuring their success. All of the girls are disadvantaged in five. With no family to support her, she grew up in a hostel for blind children in the Empowerment Non-Profit! 2000 Massachusetts Ave NW Join the Batonga mailing list to receive our free the challenges that girls in schools (grades 7 to 12), with continued support as they communities to receive support, priority is given to the Source: Equality, a Commonwealth Perspective schools, increasing enrollment, improving teaching strength and the tools some way: they include those orphaned by AIDS, those who are disabled, or those central region of Cameroon. If it was not for Batonga and our local NGO partner, First Floor bi-monthly e-mail newsletter, which includes progress through university, vocational school or other most disadvantaged populations within the target The Batonga Foundation was recently named one of the they need to be the who come from very poor families. Nevertheless, they have taken on these personal African Action on Aids (AAA), Judith would not have been able to attend school. She Online donation Washington, D.C. 20036 updates on our activities, as well as interesting standards, providing school supplies, supporting mentor skill-based adult learning activities. countries. Particular attention is given to girls who are Top-Rated Women’s Empowerment Nonprofits by the Great Africa face, grounded by the mothers of change.” challenges with enormous spirit, tenacity, and dedication to their education. is extremely grateful for the support Batonga provides and says, “This scholarship is news, events, and facts about education and programs, exploring alternative education models and AIDS orphans or whose families are affected by AIDS. Non-Profits website. Receiving this honorable award will greatly Angelique Kidjo Batonga is supporting these students from grade 7 through grade 12 with NGO partner: not only giving me an opportunity to go to school and fulfill my dream of becoming reduction of poverty in Africa: Build secondary schools in a limited number of They will receive scholarships as well as financial increase our visibility, and we hope that it will remind our One off donation Recurring donations Phone Number: (202)-510-7169 advocating for community awareness of the value of scholarship packages that include tuition, uniforms, school supplies, mentoring, and World Education a teacher; it also places me in a network of other girls benefiting from the same empathy and experience communities that can guarantee that a minimum of half assistance so that they can stay among their neighbors, existing supporters of the powerful work that Batonga is doing! education for girls. community awareness activities that broadly promote girls’ education. scholarship and who have received me with open arms.” Donation Amount: Monthly Name the students will be girls and where the school, once built, friends and extended families in their communities [email protected] 40% will be operated through ongoing government and rather than on the street or in an orphanage. More info Women’s Empowerment Award Page $25.00 Daily of the global world music Judith dreams of becoming a teacher and hopes to one day set an example for email community support. Weekly Primary School Attendance (Benin) other handicapped students by proving that they are not victims and can achieve $75.00 Batonga implements its mission at a country level by Monthly Board of Directors Cameroon great things! 01 July 2013 country icon Angélique Kidjo, we Increase enrollment of girls in existing schools by building working in partnership with existing non-governmental $100.00 Annually Granting scholarships: 20 girls, all AIDS orphans or from families affected by AIDS, dormitory facilities where distance from school to home organizations (NGOs) that have successful onsite have been awarded secondary school or post-secondary scholarships. They began Batonga Supports Girls in Rural Ethiopia Mary Louise Cohen Jean Hebrail Angélique Kidjo are too great, and providing parental support and experience in girls’ education. Our work is guided by the Subscribe positioned the brand as their first year of secondary school in September 2007 and this same scholarship 10-14 year-olds Partner, Phillips & Cohen LLP and Song writer, arranger West African singer, songwriter and incentives that help to ensure the girls stay in school. input of a Board of Advisors who have extensive will be paid annually by Batonga until they graduate. The scholarship includes Director, Opportunity Fund and composer UNICEF International experience in this field. Meet Catherine, a Batonga Scholar in Benin Did you know that 7 in 10 girls in Ethiopia do not attend Transforming AFRICA, one girl at a time tuition, uniform, school supplies, mentoring and community awareness programs. Your details 20% a partner that could offer Read full bio Read full bio Goodwill Ambassador Improve teaching standards in secondary schools by secondary school? Read full bio supporting internet-based distance learning, wage The principle international partnership is with World More info Catherine is 10 years old and is a Batonga Scholar in Benin. Catherine’s father In-country NGO partner: First Name: John Phillips Monica Winsor incentives, enhanced summer programs, mentoring by Education. Using education as a primary strategy, World recently was released from prison and her mother passed away a few years ago. This deprives them of the many benefits of education: later Donate to a specific Country: solutions for Africa – by African Action on AIDS (AAA) Player Agolo Partner, Phillips & Cohen LLP and Partner, The Inspired master teachers and onsite teacher-training programs. Education unleashes the deep instinct, drive and She lived with hergrandmother who was not able to send her to school because it marriage, healthier children, higher wages, stronger Last Name: Director, Opportunity Fund Philanthropy Group potential of people at the community level through was too expensive. Even though her father is out of prison, she still lives with her communities, and more prosperous countries. In Ethiopia’s Gift Information: 51.4% Africa and the world. Kidjo Read full bio Read full bio Provide school supplies in the form of textbooks, library groundbreaking programs that build the skills, talents grandmother. She says the Batonga scholarship has changed her life. She is excited public education system, families must pay for school fees, Ethiopia Address: batongafoundation.org Angelique Kidjo – African singer, mother, daughter books, teaching materials, notebooks, paper, pens, pencils and confidence they need to take control over their to be back in school. books, uniforms and supplies – costs that are prohibitive for I'd like to make this donation and other basic items which are often non-existent or in futures. Granting scholarships: In Addis Ababa, Batonga, in collaboration with a local the poorest families. N/A herself is also a very real International Board of Advisors American Board of Advisors Batonga Team short supply. charity, Hope for Children, has created a unique program that supports college 0% Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Batonga is supported by The Opportunity Fund, a education for girls orphaned by AIDS. Scholarship recipients are enrolled in Batonga is helping girls in one of Ethiopia’s most remote on behalf of Support mentor programs for girl students that link them non-profit charitable organization established by John various university programs including nursing and law. Each scholarship includes regions explore a future full of new possibilities by providing example of the potential annual course fees, uniforms, books and materials and a transportation and food Nigeria Ghana Zambia Kenya Dr. Ruth Bamela Engo Cameroon Josh Groban Stephanie Cate with older women who can serve as guides and elder Phillips and Mary Louise Cohen with proceeds from two them with scholarships and academic support to complete in memory of City: stipend. Batonga supports each recipient until she has successfully completed her Former Director of Labour of Cameroon Read full bio Executive Director ‘protectors’ as the girls face challenges both personal and public interest lawsuits. The Fund supports charitable secondary school! courses. Currently, Batonga provides 17 girls with annual scholarships. that education can unleash and former UN Senior Economic Read full bio social during the course of their education. organizations in the United States and in Africa. In-country NGO partners: Please send acknowledgement State: Literate Semi-literate Literate Affairs Officer Rudy Pamintuan Hope for Children, Batonga covers mentoring and school fees for 140 girls at of this gift to: President, African Action on AIDS (AAA) Managing Director, Sherman Consulting Jenna Lenskold Batonga is also supporting Hope for Children’s Youth Learning Center in Addis Gidole and Konso high schools, which each draw students (email or postal address) ZIP / Postal Code: in girls if continuity is Explore alternative education models such as mobile Gemini Foundation Meet Bernadette, a Batonga Scholar from Benin Read full bio Read full bio Summer Intern secondary schools and radio-based distance learning for Ababa. The center offers after school tutoring programs and summer learning and Mercy Corps from long distances. Although many girls are still expected Source: UNESCO Source: EFA Global Monitoring Report Read full bio remote communities or for families with cultural programs. Last year, Batonga filled the Youth Learning Center’s library with 5,000 to help at home before and after classes, they no longer Country: ensured. Stephen Lewis Canada Steven Hansch restrictions on girls being sent away from home for books, providing the over 300 children who regularly attend classes there with A few years ago, Bernadette’s family rarely had enough food to feed the entire have to work additional jobs to pay for school. Former UN Special Envoy Read full bio Anna Chamiec-Pauneto schooling. access to the necessary tools for learning. Batonga also donated 5,000 books to a family. Bernadette’s parents could not afford school fees or the cost of necessary Phone: for HIV/AIDS in Africa Summer Intern variety of organizations and schools including the new library at Project Mercy in school supplies, so they sent her to stay with her aunt who could better support her. Chair, Stephen Lewis Foundation Read full bio Advocate for community awareness to promote and Butajira, the Agazi High School and the community center and public library in Things did not work out and Bernadette returned to her family. At that point, the E-Mail: Read full bio Adigrat/Tigray. mother’s association, a community organization dedicated to improving the quality Ann Przybyl support girls’ education by addressing the gender Our design solution prejudice and cultural traditions that restrict the of education and raising the status of girls and women, intervened and convinced How did you hear about us? Dr. Christiana A. M. Thorpe Sierra Leone Summer Intern Batonga is also partnering with the Gemini Foundation in Ethiopia to provide Bernadette’s parents to make sacrifices and to send Bernadette to school. Soon Founding Chair, Forum for African Read full bio empowerment of women in general, and their access to education in particular. educational support for girls from Gemini families, which are destitute families after enrolling, Bernadette was selected to receive a scholarship. Bernadette says, “I included novel ideas for Women Educationalists with twins living in the slums of Addis Ababa. Batonga will provide school supplies am very happy because now I go to school and have enough to eat. If I go to (FAWE Sierra Leone Chapter) to 31 girls attending universities in Ethiopia and 500 girls attending school in school, I can learn.” Chairperson & Chief Electoral Addis Ababa. promoting the endorsement Commissioner Read full bio Player Agolo Player Agolo Providing microloans: Batonga’s newest project, in partnership with Mercy Corps, of Batonga in partnership Archbishop Desmond Tutu South Africa is titled PROSPER, which stands for Promoting Sustainable Partnerships for Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1984) Economic Recovery. PROSPER is a program that targets vulnerable communities in with organisations, and a Founder, The Desmond Tutu the Konso and Derashe districts of Ethiopia. Its objective is to empower Peace Centre marginalized women to enable girls to complete their secondary school education unique play on the Batonga Read full bio and improve their well-being. As an incentive to keep the girl in secondary school, mothers/female care givers will be provided with a loan of up to $150 linked to the secondary school logo designed to create enrollment of the girl. The profits that the mothers make from their loan will be used to expand their income generating activities and continue payments for the awareness, affinity and Player Agolo costs associated with sending their daughters to school.

The project will provide secondary school scholarships for 140 students. In funding. addition the project will support up to 50 girls in continued vocational education and apprenticeship opportunities after graduation. Each girl will be provided with $30 per month for a period of 10 months to cover daily subsistence and transportation costs.

In 2012, the Batonga The project will also place emphasis on encouraging parents to keep their daughters in school through secondary education. Awareness raising strategies Foundation was named one will be devised in consultation with the respective Woreda education offices and special events will be organized to bring together parents of children on a regular basis to discuss their income generating activities, positive changes in their of the Top-Rated Women’s households and performance of their children. Empowerment Nonprofits by More info

Great Nonprofits. Mali Granting scholarships: 75 girls have been awarded scholarships in Kidal in northen Mali, one of the toughest and most isolated places in the world. These girls, all of whom are disadvantaged, have overcome daunting obstacles to pursue their education. Batonga is supporting the scholars from grade 7 through grade 12 with scholarship packages that include tuition, uniforms, school supplies, mentoring, and community awareness activities that broadly promote girls’ education.

More info NGO partner: World Education In-country NGO partners: Aide à l’Enfant du Désert et du Sahel (AEDS)