Girls LitClubs
LitClubs create a sanctuary for women and girls' empowerment through literacy learning. The program is a series of reading and writing workshops for girls that tap into their extraordinary strengths as learners, thinkers and leaders. The workshops provide the tools for successful reading and writing, speaking and listening (the definition of literacy) that are so crucial in this changing world. LitClubs raise the potential for increasing academic performance for every participant.
Using LitWorld's innovative 7 Strengths model, mentorship within the LitClubs encourage girls to build character, instill values, and create community. The LitClubs inspire girls to read and write to collaborate, communicate, connect, and create new ideas to inspire their own development, and to impact the world.
Accomplished so far:
• Created a replicable curriculum for empowering reading and writing experiences specifically designed for girls
• Launched Girls Clubs worldwide, including sites in Kenya, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and the Philippines, with U.S. sites in multiple New York City locations, Port Chester, NY, and Greenwich, CT
• Currently training facilitators to launch clubs worldwide, including sites in Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Israel, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia, and U.S. sites in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, Virginia Beach, and multiple sites in Iowa