| AUTHOR | Farzana Kashfi, Senior Manager, Education Program - Santhosh Ramdoss, Senior Program Manager -Scott MacMillan, Communications Manager, BRAC USA |
| ORGANIZATION | |
| TYPE | Lessons Learned/Good Practices |
| DATE | 2012 |
| TOPIC | Child poverty and disparities |
| LANGUAGE | English |
BRAC's network of clubs for adolescent girls, called Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA), is now active in six countries. How do these clubs work?
Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) is a program that offers hundreds of thousands of adolescent girls the opportunity for a better life through mentorship, life skills training and microfinance. Targeting girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in Bangladesh, Uganda, Tanzania, Afghanistan, South Sudan and, most recently, Haiti and Sierra Leone, it has been rigorously tested and shown to have positive impacts.
