This year, Daughters of Eve are sponsoring a student through the Starfish One by One program.
Starfish One-by-One provides scholarships to ensure 6 years of secondary education for each young woman as well as a mentorship program.
Daughters of Eve member, Bronwyn Vincent, has been involved with this nonprofit since it began 5 years ago.
Starfish One-by-One, (www.starfishonebyone.org) a nonprofit organization, transforms impoverished Mayan families and communities in Guatemala by empowering and educating their catalysts of change: young women. Through ensuring her access to six years of secondary education and equipping her with powerful information and a firm belief in herself, Starfish One-by-One creates a female agent of change capable of breaking generational cycles of poverty and exclusion in her family and community. School-related costs and the time a girl spends studying instead of working represents a “Double Burden” for impoverished families.
From an initial group of less than 20, there are now 182 Starfish scholars of which Daughters of Eve is now sponsoring one: an 8th grader named Maria Lucia Sicay, who lives in Santiago de Atitlan. DOE contributes $250+ per school year for her education.
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