Brief Background

Under representation of girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in developing countries such as Malawi continue to be an issue of global debate. Lead-Her is committed to address this challenge by implementing the STEM mentorship programs to girls from rural primary schools as one way of ensuring increased school performance and completion rate amongst girls. Lead-Her believes that such interventions will help to build competent girls that will be able to drive the Malawi 2063.

OUR VALUES

1. Partnership – We believe in creating partnerships with all stakeholders with vested interest in supporting girl child education. By embracing partnerships, our goals and ambitions of mentoring girl child will be achieved.
2. Transparency - we are committed to be transparent and accountable in all the operations through provision of legit financial and activity reports periodically.
3. Gender Inclusivity - Much as the main focus of Lead-Her is a girl child, boys have not been left out in the execution of our programs. In the each STEM club there is a representation of boys who support the girls in the STEM sessions.
4. Rural Community outreach – Our activities target the remote areas .

Our Objectives

The programme seeks to fulfil a number of specific objectives that include:
1) To build the capacity of university students for them to provide adequate STEM mentorship sessions to grirls and women from rural areas;
2) Provision of STEM scholarship programmes to students in rural Malawi;
3) Provision of STEM mentorship programmes to girls in rural primary and secondary schools;

Our Initiative Goal

The overall goal of the programme is to increase the proportion of rural Primary and secondarySchool students accessing higher education in Malawi. .