Empowerment through Education

Circle of Women is a student-run nonprofit that works to promote women's education in developing countries. We recently completed construction of a secondary women's school in the Wonkhai province of Afghanistan and are now working to make the school sustainable through vocational training.

Our mission is to equip girls with self-reliance, knowledge, and increased capacities to both enhance their own lives and to contribute productively to their societies. We believe this is the best way to affect positive, global change!

One school will affect one community. One campaign will unite us in a circle of change.

Although we try to instill young women with a sense of empowerment through education, we also seek to include and motivate the entire local and global community to work with us for this cause. We recognize the importance of engaging and fostering support from the fathers and male community leaders especially considering that in many of these countries they have the power to deny the girls an education.

Men are also at an advantage in that they often have better access than girls to primary and secondary school education in developing countries. Circle of Women specifically works on projects that relieve this gender inequality in access to education. Thus we invite and welcome men to join us in bridging this gender gap.

There are few groups that are as well aligned with MenSpeakUp's objectives of gender equality and sexual respect as Circle of Women.  While MenSpeakUp, similar to The Girl Effect, works to solve this problem through advocacy and social media in the decidedly digitized West, Circle of Women works toward the same goal but on a different, less digitized and perhaps even more polarized front. We build schools in Afghanistan and work to secure basic human rights.  Please follow our efforts on our blog and help us connect with fundraisers and supports to meet our goals.