In collaboration with its partner organizations, the Grandmother Project is currently working on several activities in the following countries:
Senegal
Ongoing three-year Girls Holistic Development Project to promote the health and well-being of girl children and to discourage female genital mutilation and other harmful traditional practices. GMP provides technical assistance to World Vision which is implementing the project in southern Senegal.
Support for development of a game for primary schools on cultural identify and intergenerational communication by Masters student, Karla Sarr. University of Massachusetts, School of Education.
Senegal
Dialogue to promote change from within:
A grandmother-inclusive & intergenerational approach to promote
girls’ health and well-being and to eliminate FGM
Mauritania
World Vision to carry out nutrition education activities with grandmother groups in central and southern Mauritania. GMP funding approved by World Vision.
Mauritania
With World Vision preliminary phase of “Holistic Development and Protection of Girls and Boys" project in southern Mauritania.
Mali
Support to National School of Social Work for a follow-up study on "Grandmothers' role during pregnancy and with newborns in urban Bamako".
Mali
Development of a proposal with Family Care International for a pilot project involving grandmothers in promoting material and newborn health. Funding will be jointly sought by FCI and GMP.
Senegal
Development of a proposal for a joint Aide et Action-GMP project to promote integration of indigenous knowledge and intergenerational communication in school-community programs. Resource mobilization to be done jointly by both organizations.
Rome
Effort to mobilize resources in order to translate (into French), lay-out and publish the GMP Resource Guide which presents GMP's principles, steps in implementing grandmother-inclusive community programs and examples of projects implemented and of results thereof.
