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WE aim to Raise Well-Informed and Empowered Black Girl Leaders to be in the forefront of Climate Action.

We focus on personal growth and development,
To cultivate creative leaders and courageous change-makers. Black Girls Rising focuses on empowering young Black Girl activists within marginalised communities to be in the forefront of climate action. We aim to raise well-informed, smart, strong and bold young women to make better positive decisions for themselves, to be creative leaders and courageous change makers. We provide empowerment programs for young women so that they can find their voices, gain skills in advocacy and campaigning, develop self-confidence, explore educational and new pathways, and forge strong bonds within a dynamic intergenerational and intercultural community.

16/10/2026

From Listening to Action | Amboseli, Kenya 🇰🇪
What happens when women and girls are at the heart of climate solutions?

We’ve just returned from an incredible journey in Amboseli, where Black Girls Rising (BGR), alongside our partners Pastoral Women’s Council | Indigenous women-led non-profit 🇹🇿 and CHD Conservation Kenya , spent time listening, learning and dreaming with the community.

In this beautiful but drought-stricken landscape, women and girls face daily challenges accessing water, growing food and navigating human-wildlife conflict.

Together, we’re co-designing solutions that put communities first:

Water closer to home – reducing the long and often unsafe journeys women and girls make.

Kitchen gardens – growing food security and community resilience.

Women-led grass seed banks – restoring landscapes while creating sustainable livelihoods.

Energy justice – exploring clean energy solutions that power communities and create green opportunities.

Girls leading change – our BGR girls co-leading alongside the incredible women of Amboseli.

What makes this journey special? We’re not arriving with ready-made solutions. We’re listening, learning and building together.

Because climate justice isn’t just about protecting the planet. It’s about shifting power, creating opportunities and ensuring women and girls lead the change.

This is just the beginning!

Rooted in community. Powered by women and girls. Rising together!

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13/10/2026

To all our Matric Class of 2026, good luck as you begin your final exams today! 🎓❤️

You’ve worked hard to get here, and now it’s time to believe in yourselves and give it your best. Stay calm, stay focused, and remember that you are capable of achieving great things. May God guide you, give you wisdom, and bring clarity to everything you have studied.

You’ve got this! We are rooting for you!

12/10/2026

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD 💜
Her Voice. Her Power. Her Future.

Girls don’t need us to speak for them. They need us to create spaces where their voices are heard, their ideas are valued, and their leadership is taken seriously.

Across Africa, girls are already challenging injustice, organising their communities, protecting the environment and imagining a different future.

Yet too often, decisions about their lives, education, bodies, communities and futures are made without them.

At Black Girls Rising, we believe that empowering girls is not simply about giving them confidence. It is about shifting power, removing barriers and creating real opportunities for girls to lead and shape the decisions that affect their lives.

When a girl finds her voice, she can challenge injustice.

When her voice is heard, she can influence change.

And when she has the resources, support and freedom to act, she can transform her community.

This International Day of the Girl Child, we celebrate the courage, creativity and leadership of girls everywhere, especially Black girls whose voices have too often been pushed to the margins.

💜 Don’t just give girls a seat at the table. Let them shape the table, set the agenda and lead the conversation.

Because girls are not only the leaders of tomorrow.

They are leading today.

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28/09/2026

TODAY AT BERTHA HOUSE! 🎉
Our Year 3 Rising in Leadership (RIL) girls are taking over Bertha House for their much-anticipated BGR Festival - an event they’ve been planning and organising since the middle of the year! 💜🙌🏾

Come spend the day with us, learn more about Black Girls Rising, meet our girls, and experience what youth-led leadership looks like in action.

🌱 Calling all girls aged 12–14!
This is also your chance to learn more and register for the Rising in Leadership programme.

📍 Bertha House, Mowbray, Cape Town
🕘 9:00am – 3:00pm
📅 TODAY!

Bring a young girl, a parent, a friend or your family, and come see what happens when girls are given the space to lead, create and build something of their own. ✨

Don’t miss out! 💜

16/09/2026

She kept showing up. 💛
For eight months, 14-year-old Anothando has not missed a single Brave Girls session in Mfuleni.

Week after week, she has explored climate justice, clean air and energy. Month after month, she has joined innovation labs and advocacy sessions.

And something is changing.

Anothando is no longer only learning about the problems around her.

She is noticing. Questioning. Imagining. Acting.

She is asking why energy access is unequal. She is thinking about the waste she sees in Mfuleni and what it means for clean air, health and dignity.

Most importantly, she is beginning to see herself as someone who can help change it.

That is the impact we care about at Black Girls Rising.

Not simply how much information a girl can remember, but whether knowledge gives her greater confidence, voice and agency.

Our Brave Girls are still young. Their ideas are still growing. And we want to give them the time, care and space to grow with them.

Because sometimes change begins very simply:

A girl shows up.
She learns.
She starts asking questions.
And eventually, she realises:
“I can do something about this.”

Not speaking for Mfuleni. Learning with Mfuleni. Acting from Mfuleni.

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03/09/2026

CALLING CAPE TOWN’S NEXT GENERATION OF GIRL CLIMATE LEADERS! ✨🌍

Are you 12–14 years old, living in a Cape Town township, and already dreaming about how you can make your community better?

Maybe you’re the girl who… 💭

🌱 Cares deeply about what’s happening in your community
📣 Speaks up when something isn’t right
💡 Has big ideas for solving problems
🌍 Cares about climate change, water, food, waste, clean air or energy
🤝 Gets your friends involved when something needs to change
🔥 Believes girls should have a say in decisions about their future

We’re looking for YOU!

Black Girls Rising is recruiting 20 girls to join the new Rising in Leadership - Year 1 Cohort.

Rising in Leadership is our 3-year climate leadership incubator where girls learn, experiment, organise, innovate and grow into powerful climate leaders and advocates.

Over the three years, you’ll explore:

🌍 Climate justice
💡 Innovation & community solutions
📣 Advocacy & campaigning
🎤 Public speaking & storytelling
🏛️ Policy & how decisions are made
🌱 Food, water & energy justice
👩🏾‍💼 Leadership & green career pathways
🤎 Confidence, sisterhood & wellbeing

And most importantly, you’ll have opportunities to turn your ideas into real action in your community.

You don’t need to know everything about climate change.

We’re looking for girls who are curious, brave, creative and ready to lead.

📍 Cape Town
👧🏾 Ages: 12–14
🌱 Only 20 places available
⏳ Commitment: 3-year programme

Know an amazing young girl who should see this? Tag her parent/guardian, teacher or community leader and SHARE this post. 📲

🔗 APPLICATION LINK IN BIO

Applications close: 30 September 2026

Because girls don’t have to wait until they are adults to lead. 🌍✊🏾

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24/08/2026

Girls advocating for the cities they deserve

On 22 August, our girls took their advocacy into the SiteB BM informal settlement community, speaking directly with residents and gathering signatures for a community petition calling attention to the state of public water taps.

As they walked through the community, they found taps that were damaged, dirty or no longer working. Even where taps were functioning, many were surrounded by waste, making access to something as basic as clean water difficult and unsafe.

But the girls didn’t just observe the problem, they organised.

They spoke with residents, explained the issue, listened to community experiences and invited people to add their voices through the petition. Watching them confidently advocate for change is exactly what youth leadership looks like in practice.

For us, this is also part of the conversation about a Just Transition.

A just transition cannot only be about changing how we produce energy. It must also be about building healthy, climate-resilient and well-functioning cities and communities where children’s rights are protected, including the right to clean water, sanitation, a safe environment and meaningful participation in decisions that affect their lives.

Girls are not only inheriting our cities. They have the right to help shape them today.

What is to follow is data analysis and preparing a presentation to the local municipality with clear demand for the community 🌱✊🏾

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19/08/2026

🚨 YOUTH OF SOUTH AFRICA: OUR FUTURE IS ON THE LINE.

Today, the AFRICAN CLIMATE ALLIANCE (ACA) is back in court to defend a simple but powerful truth: South Africa does not need new coal. We need a just, renewable energy future. ✊🏾🌍⚡

In 2024, young people won a landmark victory when the High Court ruled that government’s plan for 1,500 MW of new coal power was unlawful, recognising that decisions about our energy future must consider children’s rights, our health and the climate crisis.

But the fight is not over.

We are calling on young people across South Africa to add their voices:

✍🏾 SIGN THE PETITION.
📢 SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
🔥 TELL GOVERNMENT: NO NEW COAL.

We want investment in renewable energy, storage and grid infrastructure that creates opportunities for young people while protecting our air, water, health and future.

Decisions being made today will shape the South Africa our generation inherits.

We deserve more than a seat at the table after decisions have already been made. Young people must have a meaningful voice in shaping our energy future.

👉🏾 Sign the petition — link in stories

SIGN THE PETITION: Tell Government to End New Coal and Invest in Renewable Energy⁠

Our future. Our energy. Our voice. 🌱⚡

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17/08/2026

Meet Gift, one of our Rising in Braveness Fellows from Kisumu, Kenya. 🇰🇪✨

At just 14 years old, Gift girl_power398 is already using her voice to create change. Through her own online talk show, she is raising awareness about the intersection between children’s rights and climate change, creating space for young people to speak, learn and be heard. 🎙️🌍

Gift reminds us why investing in girls’ leadership matters: young people are not only the leaders of tomorrow; they are already shaping the conversations that matter today.

We are incredibly proud to walk alongside her as she rises in braveness. 💛

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13/08/2026

MENTORS WANTED
Help us grow the next generation of young women climate justice leaders.

Black Girls Rising is looking for experienced practitioners and experts to mentor three of our young interns as they develop practical projects and campaigns in their communities.

EMIHLE: FOOD JUSTICE
Emihle is exploring food justice, sustainable food systems and community-led solutions.

We are looking for a mentor with experience in areas such as food systems, agroecology, sustainable agriculture, food security, urban/community farming or food justice campaigning.

LITHA: WATER JUSTICE
Litha is developing her knowledge and practical work around water justice and equitable access to water.

We are looking for expertise in water justice, water governance, water security, community organising, environmental justice or related fields.

LIYANDA: CLEAN AIR & ENERGY JUSTICE
Liyanda is working at the intersection of clean air, energy access and a just energy transition.

We are looking for expertise in clean air, renewable energy, energy poverty, just transition, community energy, environmental health or green-economy pathways.

We are not looking for someone to do the work for our interns. We are looking for people willing to walk alongside them, sharing knowledge, asking challenging questions, helping them strengthen their ideas and connecting them to opportunities and networks.

Mentors would:
• Meet with their intern monthly
• Provide technical guidance on their project or campaign
• Help them translate ideas into practical action
• Share relevant tools, research and resources
• Support their professional and leadership development
• Connect them with people, organisations and opportunities in the sector
• Help them understand possible career pathways within the green economy

If you work in one of these areas, or know someone who would make an incredible mentor we would love to hear from you.

📩 Interested in becoming a mentor?
Contact: [email protected]

Black Girls Rising
Supporting Black girls and young women to learn, lead and build solutions for a just climate future.

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Cape Town

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Monday	08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 17:00
Thursday	08:00 - 17:00
Friday	08:00 - 15:00
Saturday	09:00 - 17:00

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