We’re on the forefront of girls’ education, powering the best local partners with the most innovative solutions for girls' education. We're trying to raise $10,000 to support our projects. Can you join us?

2019 has been an incredible year for Circle of Women. Our projects are moving us in a different direction towards more innovative approaches to girls' education. If we want to create local leaders ready to use their education to generate lasting social and economic change for their communities, girls need access to quality education.

We're powering education not in terms of binary access, but in terms of the quality of education. We are going beyond the notion of infrastructure, as education should not be bounded by classroom walls.

Our partnership with Seseme Girls’ School powers dignified educations. No girl should go to school without knowing that she can safely use the bathroom, and care for her menstrual health. A simple solution from Circle, providing quality toilets, is a part of the larger emphasis on the importance of women’s health and menstrual health in schools. This project, dramatically different from Circle’s traditional projects, represents a new part of our philosophy that comes with the explicit acknowledgment of the critical importance of the whole girl, rather than just the girl in the classroom.

Most recently, we passed and announced the Maia Impact Project, our partnership with the Maia Impact School in Guatemala. The Maia Impact School has fostered an educational community for students from populations that are historically harder to reach. Indigenous girls face language barriers and a dearth of resources, which disadvantages them in a country with already low education rates. These students excel in science and math fields. However, the school has struggled to bring literacy rates to match the same high standards set by scores in STEM fields. The best way to change that would be to expose their students to literature. However, the school has limited access to books and no access to technological programs that would allow them to dramatically expand that access nearly instantaneously.

Circle of Women is undertaking a pilot project during which we will provide e-readers for students so that they have access to literature at home and in school. Technology has the incredible ability to unleash access as has never been possible before, and Maia is the first project through which we will capitalize on that opportunity. A love of reading and an appreciation for great writing are not facets that should be reserved for any portion of the population, but available to all. Technology makes it so simple to do just that.

Circle of Women is on the forefront of innovations in girls’ education. When you donate to Circle today, you donate to the most innovative solutions that allow more girls to go to better supported schools. We are so proud of our work in 2019 and so excited about the energy and passion of the team as 2020 approaches.

Innovative Giving

By Circle of Women

Innovative Giving

Education in 2020