The project that I am working on is a process of creating space for girl children to find their own voices. The project seeks to:
• Establish Coaching clubs
• Facilitate Mentoring sessions
• Elect Girl child ambassadors in schools and communities
• Survey in rural and urban schools and churches
• Training ZGCLCI facilitators
• Radio and television talk shows

The concept was inspired by my five years journey through the IIGL, personal journey as an African woman and influence by Steven Covey’s (2004) that it is important for people to find their voices and inspire others to find their own voices. He defines voice as, natural gifts, talent, passion, strength and unique personal significant full of hope intelligence and resilient by nature.
Growing up a girl child in an African finding my voice was almost an uphill struggle, swatted by the array of cultural and religious traditions that place girls as minors vis-a – vis boy children there was no space to dream. A woman who has not given birth to a boy child has not grown the clan. A friend of mine told me over the telephone that there is now ‘decency’ in the family because she had given birth to a boy child. I realised from this discussion that despite the laws that are put in place to support the empowerment and protection of women; the journey and the struggle for the liberation of women is lifelong.

Over the years, post the decade of women, Beijing platform significant efforts have been made not only to enact favourable legislations but also to create awareness among citizens about these laws. The enactment of favourable legislations does not necessarily translate into mechanisms of their enforcement. Without any significant systems to monitor the delivery and impact of the legislations, these well-intentioned laws may lead to perverse outcomes of further erosion of women’s rights. Notwithstanding the deep psychological blocks that cloud women that need to be persistently questioned.
The girl child coaching initiative is committed to unveil the spirit of intellectual and leadership possibilities in girl children and assist girl children maximize their full potential. We seek to work with; parents as mentors, renowned women leaders as coaches, young women as facilitators and selected teenage girls as child ambassadors.
The support that I would appreciate from other Africa Unbound community is in threefold; first, the moral support this could be facilitated through sharing information about initiatives in their own countries that I could tape on. The second level of support would be resource mobilization. I would appreciate exchange of information on potential funding for the initial stages of the process and in the long term market for the products from The Initiative’s study circle projects. The third level of support that I expect from the group is publicity. Media plays a critical role development. I would foresee articles about the initiative published in the popular magazines, and news papers.