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Achievers ‘09Lorem Ispum School

2012 MEDIA KIT



“Circle of Women has

shown me what can beachieved when passion

gets turned into action.”

– Elizabeth Brook, co-director ‘09



p.2 Our Story

p.3 Our Mission, Action & Philosophy Statements

p.6 Our Motivation

p.9 Our Projects

p.13 Chapters

p.15 Press & Awards

p.16 Our Sponsors

p.19 Join Our Circle

TABLE OF CONTENTS



Our circle started small. It began in 2006 in a

mall Harvard University dorm room when Clotilde

edecker, a sophomore at the time, simply asked her

oommates, Britt Caputo and Cristina Ros, if they

wanted to help her with her crazy idea to build a

chool. Turns out they didn’t think it wasn’t so crazy.

hey saw that 85% of women in Afghanistan had (and

till have) no formal education. The best way to changehat was to build a school for girls and they wanted in.

Circle of Women went on to raise $180,000 to

uild a two-story school, which opened its doors to

00 girls in Wardak, Afghanistan in 2009. From there,

he circle has only been growing. We currently have a

0-member team at Harvard, we’ve expanded to 10

chapters nationally and internationally and we’ve ra

upwards of $680,000 for our new projects.

But even as we continue to grow, we will nev

forget our grassroots beginnings. We now know tha

college kids and small college dorm rooms are

perfectly reasonable people and places to plant the

seeds for a revolution.

We are a new kind of nonprofit. We are 100run by full-time students and young professionals th

know that the world under-invests in girls. But we

believe this is a very fixable problem and we’re

passionate about tackling it. It just takes one idea to

make a world of change. We are Circle of Women.

Circle of Women Media Kit p. 2



We mobilize students

to provide access to

education for girls

without it.We believe that educating women is a key to promoting social change and prosperity at the

grassroots level. We build and support sustainable secondary schools in partnership with

local communities, making the classroom more accessible to young women in developing

countries.

www.circleofwomen.org p. 3

Our Mission

http://www.circleofwomen.org/





We collaborate with communities eager to implement innovative, sustainable, and localized

solutions to increase girls’ access to secondary schools. In doing so, we cultivate a new

generation of global citizens by providing students at home with hands-on opportunities in

organizational leadership, fundraising, and project management.



One community of women will be the agent

of positive,global

change.

One school will affect

one community of women.

Our Philosophy






One out of every three women in the world is illiterate

About one quarter of girls in developing countries are not in school.

Our Motivation




.. but if a girl goes to school..

2) A girl in the

developing

world who

receives sevenyears of

education will

marry four

years later

and have 2.2

fewer

children.

3) Economistslink each yearof additional

maternaleducation witha five to tenpercentdecline in

infant

mortality .

4) An additionalyear of primaryschool boosts

girls’ eventualwages by 10 to20%, while anadditional year of secondaryschool increasesher wages by 15to 25%.

5) Whenwomen angirls earn

income, threinvest 9percent ofthat incominto their

families.

) She ismore likely toearn an

ndependent ncome...ando spend a

portion of amily incomeon herchildren’shealth.











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ACKGROUND In 2009, after 18 months of construction and anvestment of about $180,000, Circle opened the doors to its first girl’school. The two-story building has twelve classrooms that service theommunity as a gathering place after school hours. Local leaders register

e school with the Afghan Ministry of Education and designed theurriculum after state standards.

Location: Wardak Province, Afghanistan

Area Overview: 85.1% women have no formal education; 12.6% female literacy rate(CIA World Fact Book)

Project Team: Harvard

Partners: Kids 4 Afghan Kids, Fahima Vorgetts of Women for Afghan Women, SerajWardak, a key local leader.

Enrollment: 700

Project Status: Building completed & students attending since 2009; research andimpact assessment continuing.

Particular Need: Over 500 girls were graduating primary school a year with nooption to continue their formal education.

Customized Solution: Construct a secondary school so that local leaders could

petition the government for teachers and books.




Location: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Area Overview: 36% female literacy rate (CIA World Fact Book)

ACKGROUND In 2005, a major earthquake hit the Northwest Frontier ProviPakistan and severely damaged Keiri Reki’s secondary school for girls. The

ck of bathrooms and drinking water prevented students from attending. In010, Circle of Women, in partnership with the Nathiagali Residence Committmbarked on a large-scale re-building of the girls’ school involving the

onstruction and installation of four new bathrooms and a septic tank, aomputer lab, two drinking water tanks and a library.

Particular Need: A 2005 earthquake severely damaged the girls’ school in Keiri Rekivillage.

Customized Solution: Refurbish the bathrooms, provide a computer lab and library

Project Team: Harvard

Partners: Nathiagali Residence Committee

Enrollment: 475

Project Status: Construction completed and supplies installed in 2010; girlsenrolled.













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Location: Cumbum, India

Area Overview: 47.8% female literacy rate (CIA World Fact Book)

Particular Need: Secondary school located too far for daily commuting

Customized Solution: Build a boarding house adjacent the school

Project Team: GeorgetownPartners: Rhema Partnership

Enrollment: 60 boarders

Project Status: Construction underway

BACKGROUND Cumbum is the only city in its area large enough to supportsecondary schools, so students historically stay in weekday hostels to accessschooling. However, in the past five years reports of sexual assault in these hostehave skyrocketed, and because of this, Tamil Nadu and other states have mandahat hostels allowing women must provide appropriate protection. As a result,

upwards of 80% of the hostels that previously housed both male and femalestudents have now closed their doors to females, forcing thousands of girls to forheir secondary education. Circle’s boarding house provides a safe housing option



Our network of chapters is ever expanding. We now have over 10 Radiu(middle school), Diameter (high school) and Circumference (college)

chapters everywhere from Seattle to Spain!

Chapters


“ As our world shrink s into a single ‘global village,’ I find the opportunity to extend a hand to women across the globe to be simply extraordinary.”- Samantha Peretore, Awareness Officer ‘0

“My involvement with Circle defined my high school experienceallowed me to personally impact other students’ and become aactive advocate for the empowerment of girls through educatioBut what is most meaningful to me is that I was able to create

network of lifelong friends across the country- and that circlekeeps on growing!” – Lauren T. Hoffman, Yale ’14 (Nardin

Academy ’10)

“To me, being a part of Circle means being a part of something

bigger in the world. Circle gives me the chance to makesomething happen, and it also reminds me to appreciate my oeducation” – Sadie Cole, Wayneflete School Diameter (Maine)



“It is inspiring to hear about this vital work to expand women’s education in a place where it has been so

difficult, and dangerous for what we rightly consider to

be one of our most elementary rights.” –President Drew Faust of Harvard University



From newspaper coverage to being named one of the Top 100 Student Companiesin the US, to winning a national award for social entrepreneurship, here’s a look atthe BUZZ we’re creating:

Press & Awards


New Society: The

Harvard College

Student Middle Eastern

Journal featured Circle ofWomen and its origins.September 7, 2007

University of Buffalofeatured a story onCircle of Women in theirstudent publication,

Generation. November 4, 2008

The Harvard Crimsonpublished the article“Circle of WomenMakes World ofDifference”. April 30,

2008

The Education show of

WBBR, the radio stationaffiliate of the financial

media agency Bloomberg L.P., featured ElizabethBrook (2009-2010 Co-Director and also afounding member) toshow how top college

graduates can put theireducation to work forothers. February, 2011

The National Coalition

of Girls’

Schools’ (NCGS) invited Circle of Womento attend its AnnualConference in NewOrleans, LAk, themed“A Call To Service”.

June 16th-18th, 2010

Kairos nominated Circleof Women as the one of

the best 100 student

companies in the US. And it didn’t stop there. Elizabeth Brook, whorepresented Circle ofWomen at the KairosSummit, was nominated

and won Intelius’s Social

Entrepreneur of the

Year Award. April 4, 2009

Yourcause.com featuredCircle of Women as causeof the week. August 8,

2008

Alicia Menendez promoted the “30 under30” campaign in her blog.

April 23, 2008

Tonic named Circle ofWomen founders—Clotilde Dedecker,Cristina Ros, and Britt

Caputo—as #13 in theirlist of the 50 mostbeautiful people in theworld. May 7, 2009
















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