Shine A Light – Supporting Refugee Girls’ Education

WUSC is proud to share with you our new Shine A Light campaign. This new endeavor aims at helping girls in refugee camps to overcome the challenges they face in accessing education.

Expected to help with domestic chores and the care of siblings, the girls in the camps often miss school or discontinue their studies altogether. Many girls can only find time to study after dark in camps that lack electricity. The first phase of our campaign focuses on raising money for safe, cost-effective solar lamps to enable girls to study at night. Once we’ve reached our goal of providing 1000 girls with access to solar-powered lamps, your donations will help the girls obtain remedial training to make up the schooling they missed out on, provide them with needed school supplies and finally offer scholarships for promising young refugee girls in Kenya and Malawi.

There are many ways that you can help. Also consider creating a video testimonial if you have been inspired by the great work of the Student Refugee Program or WUSC’s pursuit of education to change the world.