Current Clubs

Palala Clubs

1. Palala Girls Club (founded April 2007)
   • Kgobagodimo, South Africa
   • Klipspruit Primary School
   • Rachel Johnson, U.S. Peace Corps
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2. Palala East Girls Club (founded January 2008)
   • Kopanong, South Africa
   • Letlamoreng Primary School, Kgomo-mokgalo Primary School & Segale Primary School
   • Rachel Johnson, U.S. Peace Corps
   • africandaylight.blogspot.com
3. Palala Boys Club (founded January 2008)
   • Kgobagodimo, South Africa
   • Klipspruit Primary School
   • Brandon Johnson, U.S. Peace Corps
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4. Palala North Girls Club (founded May 2008)
   • Ga-Seleka, South Africa
   • Seleka Primary School
   • Jessica Vig, U.S. Peace Corps
   • africanwanderlust.blogspot.com

Other Clubs (adapted from the Palala Clubs model)

1. Chrysalis Girls Club (founded February 2008)
   • Abbotspoort, South Africa
   • Abbotspoort Higher Primary School
   • Susie Barr-Wilson, U.S. Peace Corps
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   • “A ‘chrysalis’ is the life stage of transformation a caterpillar undergoes to become a butterfly. Once a caterpillar has matured, it spends a considerable amount of time in a protective casing, growing and differentiating, until it is ready to emerge as its new identity, a beautiful butterfly. The process of a girl becoming a woman is an exciting, yet challenging one, filled with significant physical, emotional, and cognitive changes. Chrysalis Girls Club aims to encourage, educate, and empower 7th grade girls (‘caterpillars’) through this transformation process (‘chrysalis’), by providing weekly recreation opportunities with correlating discussions. Activities include teambuilding & critical thinking, women’s health, physical fitness, life-skills, crafts, environmental education, and community service. At the end of our nine-month program, girls will have gained the long-term benefits of positive relationships, increased self-esteem, heightened awareness of their community and world, HIV/AIDS knowledge and prevention methods, and practical skills they can apply throughout their lifetime, enabling them to enter their next phase in life, secondary school, as confident young women (‘butterflies’).”
     
2. Ndabeni School Girls Club
   • Acornhoek, South Africa
   • Ndabeni Higher Primary School
   • Rose Zulliger, U.S. Peace Corps
   • “The Ndabeni School Girls’ Club focuses on teaching the girls important life skills related to HIV/AIDS, pregnancy, and successful living. Each meeting opens with an activity related to subjects such as peer pressure, early pregnancy, and self-confidence. These lessons stress the importance of abstaining from sex until they are older and in a faithful relationship where they feel ready. The activities also capacitate the girls to take healthy decisions and protect themselves. The meetings then have a craft or sport time where the girls can have fun and reinforce the lessons learned through the activity. In addition to teaching valuable life skills, the Club meetings also provide a very positive after-school activity in an area where there is not much to do after school except get into trouble.”