Girl’s Empowerment

Soar in a Bag

‘Soar in a Bag’ is our UN-backed Empowerment Curriculum kit.

Our award-winning 25 Workshop Empowerment Curriculum translates an international human rights education into an optimized curriculum designed for teen girls.

The curriculum modules, taught in Arabic and English, are based on the Project Soar 5 Principles of Empowerment and help underserved, marginalized girls understand their Value, Voice, Body, Rights & Path.

Packaged into a scalable, portable kit, Soar in a Bag provides all the tools needed for a team of 2 trained local women ‘Empowerment Facilitators’ to lead a ‘squad’ of 20 teen girls through the curriculum.

Over the course of the program, girls are mentored to increasingly facilitate the program themselves, creating a sustainable mechanism that fosters self-mastery of skills attained and peer to peer learning. This later leads to the creation of Soar Clubs and Soar Dialogues, ultimately enhancing their chances for brighter futures by staying and excelling in school, avoiding child marriage and thereby increasing their employability.

What’s in the Soar Bag?

5-Workshop supplies such as pens, colored pencils + markers, paper, sports cones, gym balls, hand sanitizer + masks.

6-Empowerment Journals - a personal notebook for each girl.

1-Soar Facilitator Training Manual: to help facilitators lead and adapt workshops to their particular group’s needs. These manuals include an overview of facilitation and learning methodologies and girl squad management techniques.

3-Reporting ToolKit containing baseline + endline surveys, attendance, feedback and evaluation forms, and a post-module survey.

2- Workshop Curriculum in Arabic - that includes each lesson plans, and a Soar Club Toolkit.

4-Sustainable Menstrual Kits with instructions on how to use and maintain their supplies. These kits allow girls to effectively manage their periods for 3-5 years.

Our Curriculum

Soar Clubs

Our curriculum is built around 5 core pillars: Value, Voice, Body, Rights, and Path, each represented in its own module.

These 5 modules consist of 25 interactive workshops, blending affirmations, education, activities, meditation, and journaling, all led by trained local facilitators.

Our goal is to inspire young girls to stay committed to their education and equip them with the confidence to shape their own futures.

By focusing on education, we believe they can achieve lasting, sustainable success.

CHECK OUT THE LIST OF OUR EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOPS

Soar Clubs create a safe space for girls to connect and support one another while practicing the leadership skills they have learned during the workshops. These clubs are girl-led and each one has elected officers who help steer the Club with the support of a Toolkit and their Facilitators. Typically, Clubs meet after school once a month over the academic year.

Soar Dialogues

Soar Dialogues

We get the communities involved through our Soar Dialogues: meetings with parents and civil society members that aim to educate and rally parents and community members to find solutions to the most pressing issues facing teen girls today including girls’ access to education, fighting childhood marriage, preventing sexual harassment, menstrual insecurity, and gender inequality.

These Dialogues provide an opportunity for the girls to work from the ground up to raise awareness and drive change towards shifting harmful social norms – because girls deserve to participate in the discussions where decisions are being made about their futures.

Soar girls receiving their 2023 English Camp participation certificate at Project Soar center in Douar Laadam (Marrakech)
A facilitators leading an empowerment workshop emphasizing the importance of leadership skills for girls.
Our Soar Girls gathered in front of Project Soar center in Douar Laadam (Marrakech).
A girl actively engaged in learning about advocacy during our October 2024 training program.
Soar Girls participating in a week-long training on advocacy and leadership.
A Soar Girl courageously sharing her personal story of resilience and empowerment to her peers.
Soar girl participated in a painting workshop activity in Azrou.
Girls collaborating to plant trees during their 2021 summer English camp.
Soar Girls using Project Soar’s journals to document and reflect on their empowerment journey.

Soar Syria

In Syria, extreme poverty combined with traditional harmful societal norms and an unstable environment place adolescent girls at particular risk of dropping out of school, gender-based violence, and child marriage.

Adapted to the specific needs of Syrian teen girls, Project Soar Empowerment Curriculum is designed specifically to increase Syrian Internally Displaced girls’ self-agency, contribute to social cohesion between IDPs and host communities, and enhance vulnerable girls’ chances for productive futures.