GETS members and mentor at Rwamagana Leaders’ School

GETS
Girls Empowered To Synergize

A family where girls get prepared for life.

Rwamagana Leaders’ School · Founded May 11, 2022

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About Us

A family, not just a club

A peer-to-peer family preparing Rwandan girls for life through leadership, mentorship, and financial literacy.

This is the family we wished we had.

Who We Are

Girls at Rwamagana Leaders’ School, organized into 10 families.

What We Do

Prepare girls for life after high school through mentorship, creativity, and community service.

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“We saw brilliant girls staying silent. Top students with amazing ideas who doubted themselves. We remembered what that felt like. So we decided to create the support system we wished we’d had earlier.” Joyeuse Giramahoro & Leila Isaro Prisca, Founders
It has not been long

Built girl by girl, family by family, year by year

Girls didn’t stay out of school for lack of ability. No one built the path. GETS is part of building it.

Every story here started with someone who believed first.
RLS assembly GETS members at a panel discussion GETS members on stage at an event
51.2%of Rwanda’s population are women and girls
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
#1Rwanda is the first country in the world to elect a parliament with a majority of women (2008)
Why girls?

A space of their own to build confidence first.

We had supportive male teachers and still felt shy, quiet, held back. Confidence is not just about support. It is about space.

We remember what silence felt like.

Girls find their voice first with other girls, then carry it into every room.

Educate a woman, and you educate the world.

Our Mission

The three things every GETS family is built around.

Every girl deserves to see herself here.
01

Empower

Knowledge, skills, and confidence to break stereotypes.

02

Prepare

Ready for university, careers, and leadership.

03

Impact

When you rise, you lift others with you.

Our Vision

GETS expanding to other Rwandan high schools

Our vision is to bring GETS to other Rwandan high schools, so more girls can access this same family, mentorship, and support, and build a generation of confident women who work as equals, teach their children openly, and lift their communities.

Confident women in all spaces

Working alongside men as equals in universities, workplaces, and leadership roles across Rwanda and globally.

A generation of impact makers

Who serve their communities, lift others up, and build a better Rwanda together.

Want to help us reach another school? Email info@getsgirls.org.

GETS girls with the Rwandan flag

How GETS Works

A student-led family model, not a top-down program.

Not something done to them. Something they lead.

GETS is student-led so girls can build community among themselves, learn from one another, and grow in collaboration with school leadership, while volunteers provide support and guidance.

Join a family
Receive support from older girls
Take part in mentorship, competitions & service
Grow through weekly support & student leadership
“To educate girls is to reduce poverty.”
Kofi Annan · UN Secretary-General
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When you rise, you lift others with you.

What could she become? What could Rwanda become? Imagine if other Rwandan high school girls had this kind of family. Our vision is to bring GETS to other schools across Rwanda. If you want to help us get there, email us.

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Thank you for making this possible

GETS would not exist without the people and institutions who believed in us before we had proof. From day one, Rwamagana Leaders’ School gave GETS a home: listening to our vision, challenging us to think bigger, supporting our events, and continuing to make GETS possible every single day. We carry this school in everything we do.

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