Brown Girl Woke News
Keep up to date with all the programs, conferences, aid missions and everything our organisation has been doing. We continue to lift up our communities with our programs, conferences and speaking, being the voice that is heard!
Creating young leaders
Our programs and Conferences are aimed at providing a space and supportive space to all our young pacific men and women. So they can create, explore and speak about issues they may be facing.
Brown Girl Woke provides the tools and our young leaders strive to create a difference in their communities here at home and across the globe.
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MEDICAL SUPPLIES DRIVE FOR SAMOA’S MEASLES EPIDEMIC
Samoa is now in a state of emergency due to the devastating outbreak of Measles taking over our small island country.
First After School Poetry program in Falealili College
The purpose of this poetry program is to encourage and teach students that are interested in poetry. This enables them to tell their stories through writing poems.
FIRST TRAINING ON BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Hosted by SPREP for our 350 USP Climate Change Club. Our club is expanding with NUS interns and this was our first of many trainings.
SAFETY KIDS PROGRAM TO 8 PRIMARY SCHOOLS
We partnered with St. Vincent de Paul for our Safety kids’ program. During our workshop we taught 6 protection rules, assuring our kids understand when and what to do in danger, their boundaries and their rights to their bodies.
First Safety Kids Program St. Theresa Primary School
We are thankful to charity St Vincent De Paul for funding our safety kids’ program. We will be going to 8 primary schools discussing our 6 protection rules combating ending violence against women and children
Street Souljah Project – Goods and grocery shopping for 10 street vendors in our reading program
This is donor base funded project! Which means the donations sent from families and friends has help us pay for 4 university students to run this program.
2nd Week of Street Souljah Project with Street Vendors
We currently have 10 kids participating in our reading program. We teach them how to read and literacy through providing a curriculum to follow, worksheets, colouring and puzzle sheets for activities to gain knowledge from.
STEM Event
BGW Stem girls with Imagine Samoa Science and Technology at Science circus pacific. After 1 year of Stem girls after school program with Papauta we are ending our program with Stem Girls Fair
Brown Girl Woke Tuana’i Grocery Project
Grocery Project is added to one of our main programs this year
AVP Training
Bringing together NUS and USP BGW members for our first workshop together. AVP alternative violence prevention program two-day workshop facilitated by Samoa Returnees Charitable Trust. Great workshop to help youth know how to combat violence.
Coral Reef Planting
For world ocean day, our climate change group – 350 USP Samoa club went out on either their 1st or 2nd training to learn about coral reef planting at Matareva Beach Fales.
New BGW Merchandise Available in our Online Store
We have new merchandise available to purchase on our website now! Beautiful Brown Girl Woke branded products for you to purchase all while supporting our organisation and our programs.
Providing Clean Water in Samoa
Brown Girl Woke is helping to provide clean drinking water to struggling families across Samoa, who don’t have access to readily available clean drinking water.
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A contribution in any amount to the funding of BGW program will help to make this once in a lifetime opportunity a reality for underprivileged Samoan youth.