Since we began, our human rights-based education program has reached more than three million people, resulting in:
Women’s Empowerment
women have been selected into leadership positions in their communities
Health
people live in communities that publicly declared an end to female genital cuting
Child Marriage
communities that have publicly declared their daughters will not marry before they are 18
The Tostan Model
Our three-year non-formal education program puts rural communities in charge of their own futures. We help communities develop their own vision for development using an approach that is:
HUMAN RIGHTS BASED
Knowledge of human rights and responsibilities is the foundation for learning
RESPECTFUL & INCLUSIVE
Information is shared in a non-judgmental way
HOLISTIC & SUSTAINABLE
Program covers five key impact areas and has sustainability at its core
Latest Blog Posts
Q&A with Tostan’s new CEO, Elena Bonometti
What is your background? I am an Italian national. I left Italy when I was 22 to get my Master's from the Science Po graduate school in Paris. I had always been interested in the world outside of Italy and I seized any possible opportunity to meet people from...
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Tostan officially signs on for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tostan has signaled its support of the Sustainable Development Goals through our commitment to Every Woman Every Child, the UN's global movement to mobilize governments, multilateral organizations, the private sector and civil society in pursuit of the health of all...
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Organization Overview Tostan is a US 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in Senegal in 1991 in order to educate and empower Africans who have had little or no access to formal schooling. Tostan’s community-led program, the Community Empowerment Program (CEP), has...
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In honor of UNGA week, check out what we are doing to promote the UN's Sustainable Development Goals through our commitment to Every Woman Every Child!
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Tostan, in support of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030), will scale up the Community Empowerment...
Happy Friday! Today we want to share a little about what we do.
For those of you who do not know Tostan well, we have six main areas of impact. Education, Health, Environment, Governance, Economic Growth and Cross-Cutting Issues (female genital cutting, child protection, early childhood development, and empowerment of women and girls) are where Tostan focuses our resources.
With these six areas focuses, we aim to empower African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights.
Click the link below to check out all our areas and see in detail what we are doing to make positive change.
Areas of Impact - Tostan International
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Limited access to education, especially for women and girls, presents a serious obstacle to community growth and development in many parts of rural...
Have you read Campaigning for Children: Strategies for Advancing Children's Rights by Jo Becker?
Jo Becker's book is focused on the rights of children while highlighting many different advocates who have campaigned for children's rights. We are so honoured that Tostan is in a few of her chapters specifically under her second chapter about Female Genital Cutting.
Click the link below to learn more about her book.
Campaigning for Children: Strategies for Advancing Children's Rights | Jo Becker
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Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding...
See the Hilton Prize Coalition's latest blog post about Syrian Refugees experiences at the European boarder by Steve Connors.
This blog is a part of HPC storytelling which offers readers context for the content that lays the groundwork for the series as a whole.
Check out the blog as well as follow the Hilton Prize Coalition to keep up with the stories to come.
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Stranded In Transit – The Hilton Prize Coalition
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Steve Connors provides context on the plight of Syrian refugees stranded at the European border. More to come in the Hilton Prize Coalition’s next...
Check out this tidbit that our partner Orchid Project collected from a recent report by UNICEF about Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Senegal.
UNICEF shows how FGC is deeply rooted within societies with being a cultural practice, thought to be preserving a girls purity, or in many cases both.
To learn more about what we are doing to end FGC and how you can help, click here: bit.ly/2p3wwoI
Source: www.unicef.org/protection/fgm_insight_eng(1).pdf
Photo: Orchid Project - Senegal, May 2017
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UNICEF report about #FGC in #Senegal: "FGM/C is a deeply rooted practice in certain parts of Senegalese society and is closely associated with certain ethnic groups. As in several other countries whe...
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