Find-Her Mission & Community Engagement Series

The operating model: find girls, listen in safe spaces, and design the response with them.

Find-Her and the Community Engagement Series are how the foundation works, not a one-off project. The method is girl-centered design, learned with Mercy Corps GirlSPARKS: Find Her, Listen to Her, Design with Her.

Outreach looks for girls and young women aged 13 to 30, including girls under the Ghana Education Service re-entry policy, school drop-outs, girls with disabilities, unemployed girls, girls facing physical, social, or psychological abuse, and girls living with HIV.

Listening happens in safe spaces, with tools chosen so girls can tell their own stories. Design uses what communities already have, and puts girls into the decisions that affect them.

Stakeholder engagement has included the Ho West Department of Social Welfare and Community Development, the Ho West District Education Directorate, the Department of Gender in Ho, schools, community health workers, churches and religious leaders, and youth-led organisations.