

Progress Update: Zanzibar Companies
Although we had initially planned for the girls at Ben Bela to conduct market research and start companies outside of their schools, we hadn’t considered some of the risks that that would involve for them. For example, one girl explained that, when she was conducting market research in a city center and tried to ask one man some questions, he hit her. Additionally the girls stressed that, when alone, even in small groups, they are often vulnerable to sexual assault. So, for t