The Daraja girls didn’t want to sit back and watch the results of the Girl Effect Challenge come in. They wanted to take part in the campaign and know that they were doing everything they could to help their school.
Everlyne and Tina checking out the Girl Effect board
The girls followed the results every day and could rattle off the top organizations and how many donations they had in relation to Daraja from memory. They had found all the other organizations’ countries on a map and asked loads of questions about what each project was doing for girls in those countries – but they were most interested in the other groups working in Kenya.
They made posters after watching a few of the Girl Effect’s videos – some drew girls escaping from poverty and early marriage to become educated, healthy women; others wrote about their goals and what they plan to do with their education. 
They worked on skits, songs, poems, videos and presentations to the volunteers on campus explaining what Daraja means to them and why a vonate to Daraja was so important.
When the competition ended, at 8 a.m. in Kenya, the girls were just starting an end-term exam. The last they heard before going to their final was that we were in fourth place, and they were very concerned. They learned that the Daraja family had gotten them back up to second just before their tea break – campus erupted in squeals and laughter as girls raced around sharing the news and throwing their arms around each other, teachers and volunteers. It was an awesome moment – one that the Daraja girls have worked hard for and truly deserve.
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