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Description
The Girls Opportunity Alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation, seeks to empower adolescent girls around the world through education, allowing them to achieve their full potential and transform their families, communities, and countries. We engage people around the world to take action to help adolescent girls and the grassroots leaders working to educate them.
Primary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
- Networking/Convening
Secondary Functions
- Program/Project Implementation
Geographic Scope
- Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Attainment
- Secondary completion
Other
- Other
Other skills
- Financial literacy
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
Quality
- Curricula/lesson plans
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
Skills
- Literacy
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Empowerment
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Other
- Sexual harassment & coercion
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Sports
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Funders and partners Back to Top
Current girls’ education funders
Current girls' education partners
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
Headquarters location(s)
- Washington, D.C., , United States of America
Office location(s)
- United States of America
Contacts
- Tubi Retta
- Director of International Programs
- tretta@obama.org
- Obama Foundation
Locations of current girls’ education work
Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs
- Cambodia
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- India
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Peru
- South Africa
- Uganda
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Zimbabwe