Ambassadors’ Girls’ Scholarship Program

Girls Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, International HIV/AIDS

Location: Burundi, Chad, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

Funder: USAID/AFR

Duration: 2004-2008
Web site: http://www.agsp-aed.org/

The Ambassadors’ Girls Scholarship Program (AGSP) is a key component of the U.S. President’s Africa Education Initiative (AEI).  It aims to address the constraints to girls’ participation, retention and achievement at school.  These include financial and opportunity costs, socio-cultural factors such as early marriage, as well as the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on girls and their families. AGSP provides comprehensive support for girls’ education in the form of: scholarships at the primary level, and sometimes at the secondary level; mentoring; parent and community awareness programs to promote and support girls’ education; and HIV/AIDS awareness activities to prevent and mitigate the spread of HIV/AIDS. Scholarships are intended to ensure access to educational opportunities, and are geared to needs within each country. 

Contact: Diane Ray