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Linking Diverse Students across Communities
From Providing Scholarships to students in need to elevating student stories for global visibility and connection.
A Nonprofit Organization
TERJA Foundation inc.
TERJA Foundation works with communities to create quality education, equitable and sustainable opportunities for learning and growth, and collaborative problem-solving for children and youth around the world, especially for those who are marginalized.
- We serve all people.
- We value youth development.
- We are committed to reconciliation.
About TERJA
Join our TERJA Community Unity Story Exchange Program
Students find their voices by creating true life videos
What?
TERJA Community Unity Story Exchange is a TERJA Foundation program that elevates students’ stories by opening a video portal to global visibility and connection. The objective – to hear and be heard. We facilitate and engage students and mentors from different communities, even world hemispheres apart, in this innovative experiential learning that results in authentic communication immersion.
Why?
Communities today face the challenge of connecting diverse people and viewpoints in cohesive, constructive ways. Instead, people struggle to be heard and to hear others. As a result, we miss opportunities to build consensus and effectively solve problems.
• All children need to be seen and heard
• All children need the opportunity to see and hear others
• All children’s concerns and issues need to be taken seriously
Through interactive learning and immersion experiences, students and adults gain the ability to engage in authentic, mindful communication.
How?
We partner students, classrooms, schools, and organizations in the United States with students in other communities in the United States and in other parts of the world.
We facilitate the production and video-sharing of stories about themselves and their communities.
The range of story topics opens an infinite window into participants’ life experiences and their communities.
Uplifting Underserved Children and Youth by providing resources and education
Our Mission
TERJA Foundation works with communities to create quality education, equitable and sustainable opportunities for learning and growth, and collaborative problem-solving for children and youth around the world, especially for those who are marginalized.
TERJA
Our Vision
To be the lead contributor to the independence and self-reliance of the world’s children and youth, through sustainable, inclusive, quality holistic education and mindful experiential learning systems.
Empowering Menstrual Health: Breaking the Silence, Ending the Stigma, and Tackling Period Poverty with Sustainable Solutions
TERJA’s Reusable Sanitary Pads Project originated as an extension of the storytelling initiative at Namasanda Primary School in Western Kenya. With TERJA’s support, three students and their mothers launched this project to provide sustainable menstrual hygiene solutions, improve school attendance, and empower the local community. The project has made a significant impact by conducting menstrual health workshops and sewing over 250 reusable pads, which have benefited 50 students, each receiving five pads and a bar of soap. Additionally, these students are now passing on their knowledge, teaching other young girls how to sew reusable pads. Testimonials from the community highlight improvements in school attendance and increased self-esteem among the girls involved.
Menstrual Health Awareness in Houston
In February 2024, TERJA partnered with Dapper Daisy LLC, a tailoring company specializing in custom women’s clothing, to address period poverty and promote menstrual health equity for youth in Houston. This collaboration expanded the Reusable Sanitary Pads Project from Kenya to Houston. The initiative now includes Menstrual Health workshops designed to raise awareness of period poverty and advocate for sustainable, eco-friendly solutions. During these workshops, young girls and women learn how to create reusable sanitary pads and underwear using organic, natural, biodegradable, and hypoallergenic materials.
Providing school supplies & words of advice to scholarship recipients
Mentoring
Girls making wellness boxes Empowerment Group
Providing Sanitary and Dignity products
Facilitating Storytelling
Engaging the Community
Do Good
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“TERJA” couldn’t exist without its treasured supporters. From raising money to volunteering or simply spreading the word – only you can help us fulfill our mission.
