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Wonder Woman Cont.

leave The RCWG? That’s great. So, Ivy, you not, you know, at par with
IVY: They come in are a brilliant woman and the rest. So you know
at fifteen. They leave I am so impressed with its the same with us. She
at eighteen. So it’s a the training at the RCWG. mentors us, I wouldn’t
three-year program. Ivy: Thank you so be here if it weren’t for
Post eighteen they can much. her. She’s really a good
come back and give back PEARL BAENI: You mentor and you can see it
to the RCWG through speak well, you ... in the girls, you can see
mentoring, IVY: I have to say it in the interns, you can
Through internships - that my mentor Zeedah see it in the way they talk,
they can also apply within Meirerhofer Mangel is a you see it in the way they
organizations for other good mentor. She really walk, the way they eat, is
internships. We send out is a good mentor and she ... You know is because of
applications and some doesn’t leave anyone her. She has really done a
come to apply because behind. good job with us.
our team is a make up PEARL BAENI: PEARL BAENI:
of all alumni of the That’s true. This is, this is such a
beneficiaries. IVY: Which is one great program and I wish
PEARL BAENI: So of the ... You know you all the best and I
are the girls just coming sometimes, you know know–I know that you’re
from Kenya or they’re United Nations Building like ... Even girls at the going to carry on this
coming from Africa – camp, you know, some whole program and ...
globally? including myself. We forward. fall off the wagon. You Everything that you’ve
have two alumni who sit PEARL BAENI: And
IVY: It’s Kenya at the know challenges at learned. And to pay it
on the board. So it’s um, your board is made up of
moment. Entirely Kenya. home, pregnancies, but forward. You’re going to
PEARL BAENI: we believe that the girls ...? she doesn’t leave people Empower more women
we train should be and IVY: Not all alumni,
If each country on the behind. We’d rather stop and more women….
are good enough to come but two alumni sit on the
continent had a program with the 24 and go and PEARL BAENI: So
like this, oh my goodness back and do the work board. get that one girl who’s happy to have interviewed
we have done and pay it PEARL BAENI:
... We can’t stop our girls
empowerment for the
good of the continent.
IVY: Actually one
of our visions soon is
to start a program for
girls outside–well in
East Africa if we have
the capacity and the
resources. I think we
can be able to bring
in girls from Uganda
and Tanzania into the
program.
PEARL BAENI: Yes,
it would be great.
IVY: It would be really
great. We are hoping to
be able to do that soon.
But for now we do take
girls from all over Kenya.
So they do come in and
we have a team, our
whole team is made up of
beneficiaries and alumni
of the organization,

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