Two MCH graduate students, Jen Farnsworth and Alyssa Baer, were recently awarded funds from GWSPH's Capital Connection Award to travel to Mexico City and support on-the-ground efforts in the monitoring and evaluation activities that GW is leading in connection with the Girl Rising program.
Girl Rising is a film that uses the power of storytelling to inspire people, shift attitudes, and change behavior. Through a partnership with Credit Suisse's Financial Education Initiative and Aflatoun International, Girl Rising will utilize it's gender-focused, locally adapted curricula to increase girls' awareness of their social and economic rights and build concrete life skills so that girls are empowered to participate fully in society. In collaboration with GW-MCH professors Drs. Amita Vyas and Nitasha Nagaraj to oversee the monitoring and evaluation project, Girl Rising will be designing and implementing a financial education-based project among adolescents in Ghana and Mexico. Jen and Alyssa will both be assisting in rolling out the pilot program set to begin in mid-January 2023.