I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. – Maya Angelou
Global Sorority
Global Sorority’s mission is to create awareness around gender equality, provide young women with sustainable leadership education and to facilitate a global sisterhood that mobilizes change, inspires action and promotes economic opportunity
In a movement to create change locally and a passion for culture diversity and brings people together we are proud to announce Global Sorority. A documentary that will take place in 12 countries in the next 2 years to bring together the stories of girls and young women. Our objective is in the name. Our goal is to use the documentary in North American as a platform for epic dialogue for change.
We have just completed the first of our series: Uganda, Italy, and Ireland. We are proud to announce that Global Sorority: The Introduction will be premiering at the Projecting Change Film Festival in Vancouver, BC on April 28, 2013.
Kampala
Our Phenomenal sister in Kampala are doing amazing things! Fasie and Xubie are two extremely talented sisters and young female artists. Fasie is a hip hop emcee with a positive message of hope and Xubie is a visual artist with a message of empowering young women. After starting a small Passion Project with them in 2010 they have now gone on to starting their own movement we are supporting called Youth Phenominal Women. For more information check out their Facebook page
Nairobi
In 2008 Loretta Cella, Executive Program Director of the Passion Foundation was able to create some leadership programming for young women while on vacation in Kenya.
As a result of this work for Africa Youth Trust, Brenda Isabel, our phenomenal Kenyan sista, was able to empower over 500 young women in two years time as a Passion Youth Coach and start her own movement in Kenya.
Brenda is now working hard to make a difference within her community with local support; empowering young women to stay in school by providing them with a safe space to be themselves and learn new skills.
Kampala. Gulu 2010
In February 2010 Loretta Cella and Maughan Mariani, Executive Director of the Bavbuka Foundation teamed up and trained over 100 young women in 15 days using the same tools developed for the Passion Project. The girls and women learned leadership tools for self growth as well as to give back into their communities.
Mlolongo
We teamed up with Anena of WEDA in 2010 to train a group of over 50 female students in Mlonogo, Kenya on Passion Project materials. We even brought Brenda from Nairobi to the workshops so they would have another amazing local role model to keep them inspired!
The Women’s Empowerment Development Agency works with high-risk teenage girls in Mlolongo, Kenya, a prostitution hotspot. With a soccer team, life coaching workshops, and other after-school activities, we provide the girls a support structure built around school attendance, because if they don’t finish high school they’ll have little choice but to become prostitutes—and we want these girls to have a choice. WEDA works in close partnership with the school staff to help imbue the girls with a sense of their own potential and worth. We are passionate about teaching girls they are the agents of their own bodies and futures! -Anena Hansen
Our goal is to start establishing a global community of young empowered women who are living their full potential connecting to others to create change. Girls support girls to make change in the world together.
“It was really uplifting. Lots of girls think this stuff isn’t important, but it really is.” – E.C. (Vancouver)