Name: BRAVE
Item: BRAVE
Author: Mujahid Fakir

WHO

BRAVE is a South African nonprofit that creates opportunities for girls, and works with those who can provide the resources, knowledge, experience, and safety that girls need to lead. BRAVE is girl-led, and use the challenge of travel and adventure to empower girls from undeserved communities to tell their own stories, acquire critical skills, and build networks to assist with education, health care, economic empowerment and safety.

WHY

BRAVE was founded by a group of ten year old girls from Manenberg, South Africa, in 2011 who wanted to make their gang-ridden community safer – and who called themselves Rock Girls after the anti-apartheid slogan,“When you strike a woman, you strike a rock”.

South Africa has one of the highest incidences of rape and sexual violence on the continent. Two out of every five rape victims is a girl under the age of 17. Many girls and women – and boys – are not safe walking to and from school or work. BRAVE was inspired by a group of Grade 5 girls (and boys) from Manenberg who decided to make their own school a safer, more beautiful place by creating a safe space – a bench – for girls. Together with their teachers, parents and caregivers, and BRAVE, they built a new school and inspired a city wide campaign, with over 58 Safe Space public benches installed around the city of Cape Town. In 2015, the girls went on the road, traveling thousands of kilometers to meet other girls, share their stories, and advocate for change.

WHAT

BRAVE uses an innovative, unconventional approach, training girls from urban and rural areas to become advocates for themselves, then taking them on road trips across their own countries, and beyond, to advocate for others.

WISHLIST

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