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Apr 13, 2008

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves." --Joseph Campbell

10,000 Girls Education Program

After the sudden deaths of her husband and 26-year-old daughter, Viola Vaughn was left with five grand-children to care for in Africa. Amid her grief, she found comfort in home-schooling them and her success won local attention. Within two weeks, Vaughn had 20 girls in her house who were failing school and asking her to teach them. In 2001, Vaughn turned her grandchildren's bedrooms into classrooms and began supplementing the girls' education, her methods included teaching them how to teach each other -- and it worked. To keep their "10,000 Girls" education program going, the girls began selling cookies and juice and were able to buy books and supplies. Soon after, they got their older sisters, aunts and cousins involved in baking and selling goods. The entrepreneurial element of the program was born.