Ambassador's Girls' Scholarship ProgramName: Ambassador's Girls' Scholarship Program In Madagascar 50.6% of females are illiterate and only 1.4% attend higher education institutions. Poverty, low confidence in the usefulness of education for women, and other social and cultural factors, such as early marriage or early sexual relationships and pregnancy, contribute to this failure to educate girls.
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The Ambassador's Girls Scholarship Program (AGSP), which was initiated in Madagascar in 2000, provides financial and technical assistance to school girls to increase the number of educated women and to promote their engagement and contribution to the community. Under a subcontract with Winrock International, Pact promotes schooling for disadvantaged Malagasy girls through provision of scholarships to girls who would otherwise have no means to stay in school. The project also provides the young scholars with information on HIV/AIDS and fosters an increased role for parents and communities in the overall education of girls through community-based mentoring programs that pair scholarship recipients with successful career women. The project so far has provided over 3,000 scholarships to school girls, of which at least 75 % received mentoring and HIV/AIDS information. Additionally, Pact has leveraged resources through partnerships with the Nutrition National Office and Microsoft to educate the girls in information technologies.
