On November 17th, join us to meet Betty Makoni, Founder and Director of the Girl Child Network, who has accepted to be the keynote speaker at our fourth annual fundraising conference on girls' education in the developing world.

Betty Makoni is a gender activist, and founder of the Girl Child Network, an organisation that champions the rights of the girl child in Zimbabwe. Since 1999, Betty Makoni has mobilized financial resources to build four Girls Empowerment Villages, a unique model that provides safe shelter, healing, and a future to sexually abused girls. She is renowned for her great innovation in designing proactive and preventative girl child empowerment programs which today directly benefit over 45 000 girls in the whole country.

Betty Makoni is also the former Chairperson of the Women`s Coalition of Zimbabwe, a network of organizations that advocate for the rights of women and girls. She has assisted thousands of women suffering from domestic violence to reclaim their rights. Realizing the great contribution Betty Makoni has made in Zimbabwe to the development of future women, she has received several national and global awards.

Education of children in the developing world: why focus on girls?

All the funds raised from the conference will go toward the projects we are supporting this year in Honduras and Zimbabwe. These two projects will provide school supplies, enable girls to continue their education at the high school level through bursaries and provide psycho-social and mentoring support for young girls affected by violence.

More on our 2009 projects

Our event

The event will take place on Tuesday November 17th from 6 to 9 pm at l'Ermitage, 3510 Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal.
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A cocktail and silent auction will precede Betty Makoni's keynote address which will be given in English.

Tickets are $100 each and can be purchased by completing the TICKET PURCHASE FORM which you can return by mail or by fax to the Foundation. You can also purchase your tickets by Visa credit card by phone at (514) 933-6346.

Join us to meet Betty Makoni, inspiring advocate of women and girls' rights, and change the lives of hundreds of children!