What We Do
REALgirl (SERniña) provides transformative workshops dedicated to empowerment and gender equity for youth around the world. Through our workshops and programs, youth develop the knowledge, skills, and courage they need to make informed life-choices and reach their highest potential. We run all of our programs in partnership with local schools and organizations in some of the world’s most marginalized and at-risk communities. Our in-depth curriculum runs weekly over the course of three years and fosters the development of self-esteem, personal agency, social-emotional development, human rights advocacy, violence prevention, leadership, and activism.
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REALgirl (SERniña) was created to be a support program to schools, public programs, and other non-governmental organizations to take on a holistic approach to girls’ empowerment and address the challenging and dangerous issues facing girls, such as low self-esteem rates leading to risky behaviours, girls entering into unhealthy and violent relationships with older men, high pregnancy rates, high dropout rates, high rates of domestic and sexual abuse, and extremely strong societal pressure to have girls/women staying at the home and not pursuing their own futures.
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Recognizing the critical role boys and men play in the creation of safe and equal communities, REALgirl (SERniña) also developed and runs the “REALboy” Program which is focused on involving boys in the movement towards women’s empowerment and gender equality and support them in overcoming the obstacles they face so they can also reach their highest potential.
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Youth do not live in a bubble, therefore we also work in partnership with parents, educators, and community leaders to help whole communities heal from the trauma of patriarchal dominance, violence, and racial injustices, to reconnect society to its ancestral roots and create communities that are interdependent, interconnected, and equitable.
In all that we do we take on a feminist, holistic, and community-centered approach to gender equity and empowerment.
In all that we do we take on a feminist, holistic, and community-centered approach to gender equity and empowerment.
REALgirl builds all of its programs on the firm belief that we are all members of one “human team” and together we are stronger.
