Our First School Running Team: SEGA Girls’ School
Morogoro, Tanzania
The Team
The running team at the SEGA Girls’ School is Girls Run Global’s first-ever team to be launched. Running is just one more opportunity for the girls to maximize their potential and discover what they are truly capable of. Click below to learn more about our approach for our running teams.
70
team-members supported by Girls Run Global, ages 13-19
6x
student-led practices per week
9.8
was the average response when girls rated their love of running 1-10
The School
Secondary Education for Girls’ Advancement
The SEGA Girls’ School is a secondary school in Morogoro, a rural agricultural region of Tanzania. Over 86% of students were at high risk of dropping out of school prior to coming to SEGA. Now at the SEGA Girls’ School they are provided with a high quality education, life skills, and entrepreneurship that promote long term success.
Educating a girl has a big multiplier effect in improving the situation of their family and the community around them. SEGA intends to give girls that kind of quality education and is ranked in the top 7% of secondary schools in Tanzania. Approximately 287 students study and live on the SEGA Girls’ School campus in grades 8–11 and a pre-secondary remedial program.
The school is supported by Nurturing Minds, a US‐based non‐profit whose mission is to support quality education, life skills, and entrepreneurship to help vulnerable girls in Tanzania become leaders in their communities. Our partnership for this Girls Run Global team would not be possible without them.
Gender-Based Challenges in Tanzania
61%
of girls do not attend secondary school
2 in 5
girls marry before age 18
121
births per 1,000 girls aged 15-19.
