Baobuyu Books!
Our interns play a crucial role in developing our educational resources. Over the years, they have compiled information and written books for our clubs and women’s empowerment programs. We are so proud to showcase their hard work below!
Basic First Aid Guide (2021)
The Basic First Aid Guide is an essential resource in both our preschool and community center. In our book, we detail the steps for basic first aid for nose bleeds, snake bites, cuts, fainting, choking, etc. We regularly review its contents with our teachers and staff to ensure everyone at Baobuyu stays safe and healthy!
If you would like to view our book, click the PDF button below!
Puberty (2021)
Baobuyu’s Puberty booklet is an inclusive, body-positive guide to puberty. It helps girls and boys, ages 9 to 17, to understand the changes their bodies go through during adolescence. Puberty contains essential information and helpful hints to manage physical changes, hygiene, sex and relationships, HIV, peer pressure, and emotions. The guide is a fun, interactive way for girls and boys to understand their bodies and approach adolescence with excitement and confidence.
We teach puberty workshops with our Girl Power group so that they better understand their bodies. We also teach puberty with the adults at our community center so that they know how to support their children as they go through puberty. Seeing these successes, we started to teach puberty workshops outside of Baobuyu—around Livingstone and in rural villages in Zambia.
Teaching girls about their bodies and how to manage their periods is an essential part of our female empowerment initiatives. For more information, visit Period Poverty Zambia.
If you would like to view our book, click the PDF button below!
Be The Change (2021)
Be The Change is a collection of the biographies of 23 extraordinary women who have shaped their communities and changed the course of history. The stories of their achievements have been a source of inspiration and empowerment for young girls and women around the world. Be The Change demonstrates the power of dedication, courage, and perseverance by showcasing the women who have been pioneering innovators, sports champions, dedicated activists, leaders, artists, and more.
If you would like to view our book, click the PDF button below!
Be The Change 2 (2023)
Inspired by an overwhelming positive reaction from our community members and supporters we decided to make a second Be The Change book! In Be The Change 2, we compiled 30 more stories of women who have overcome incredible odds to do extraordinary things. Their dedication and triumphs prove to the girls in our female empowerment groups that they too can be the change they want to see in the world.
Based on the success of this book with our female empowerment clubs, we hope to compile a similar collection for boys to be inspire too!
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