Grandmother Project - Change Through Culture

19/10/2025

It’s deeply painful. Its impacts can last a lifetime.

Female ge***al mutilation (FGM) can cause long-term physical and psychological damage, with serious medical complications.

In humanitarian and fragile contexts, the risks associated with FGM may be further exacerbated.

UNICEF and partners are committed to ending this human rights violation by 2030, once and for all.

28/09/2025

In Baty, from September 25 to 26, 2025, GMP Change Through Culture, with the support of UNFPA, is organizing a youth leadership training program based on local values to promote the well-being and growth of adolescents.
Thank you to the community of Baty.

22/09/2025

💫 Education unlocks transformative impact and multiplies progress across all , including: economic growth, jobs and skills, peace and stability, resilience, health, equality. ​

At , GPE will launch a financing campaign to mobilize crucial resources for education. ​

🤝 The campaign will rally support to turn the learning crisis into an investment that multiplies learning possibilities and economic returns.

22/09/2025

19/09/2025

30/08/2025

🎉 This month we had the pleasure of celebrating 13 young girl leaders who successfully passed their Baccalaureate exams! 💐 As active participants of Grandmother Project’s Girls’ Holistic Development Program, each young girl leader received leadership and personal development training to become positive role models in their communities. Along with traditional education, the young girl leaders also attended schools in which positive cultural values are taught and reinforced by integrating grandmothers in the learning process.

👩🏾‍🎓👵🏽 "Your academic performance is the result of individual effort, of course, but also of values of courage, citizenship, willpower, commitment, self-esteem, self-confidence, respect, perseverance and motivation." Grandmother Project National Director Mamadou Coulibaly told the young girl leaders.
In addition to celebrating the amazing accomplishments of the young girl leaders, Grandmother Project also offered guidance and support for their future education and career goals!

Want to help support young girls’ education? Find out how you can donate at https://grandmotherproject.org/donate !

24/08/2025

Kael Bessel, young female leaders trained by GMP Change Through Culture as part of the holistic development of girls and boys, thanks to funding from UNFPA, are getting to work during this month dedicated to reforestation by mobilizing their peers for civic engagement through the concept of “one girl, one tree.” This activity, which is part of their action plan, stems from a personal initiative by the young women's association under the leadership of their leaders, thus constituting a simple gesture that will have a lasting impact on the community and the environment.

12/07/2025

Now and always, we remain inspired by our dearly missed friend and former Chair, Desmond Tutu. A very different world could be created if all leaders followed his example.

📷 Desmond Tutu in Sudan, 2007. Credit: Frederic Noy