WOMEN LEADING CHANGE
It has been six years since we began Women Leading Change and in this time we’ve given thousands of girls living in some of the most marginalized areas of Africa the opportunity to receive an...
View Article#FollowUsToAfrica – Ganze
This past September, AG’s CEO and Co-founder Lotte Davis travelled to Africa with two friends to visit the schools which Women Leading Change has built or is in the process of building, and to...
View Article#FollowUsToAfrica – Kibera
AG’s CEO and Co-founder Lotte Davis recently travelled to Africa with two friends to visit the schools Women Leading Change has built or is in the process of building, and to reconnect with the girls...
View Article#FollowUsToAfrica – Atanga
AG’s CEO and Co-founder Lotte Davis recently travelled to Africa with two friends to visit the schools Women Leading Change has built or is in the process of building, and to reconnect with the girls...
View Article#FollowUsToAfrica – Patongo
AG’s CEO and Co-founder Lotte Davis recently travelled to Africa with two friends to visit the schools Women Leading Change has built or is in the process of building, and to reconnect with the girls...
View ArticleHair that cares: Lotte Davis, CEO of AG Hair, educating girls in Africa
When I heard Lotte Davis speak on a women in philanthropy panel, I couldn’t help but be struck with her incredible authentic energy about the work she is doing to educate girls and women in Africa....
View ArticleUpdate from Uganda – Back to School
Just in time for the start of a new school term, Phase Two of our rehabilitation of Atanga Girls Secondary School is complete. When AG Hair’s CEO Lotte Davis first visited this girl’s school in 2009,...
View ArticleGanze Girls Secondary School
It’s back to school time and here at AG we’re excited to share with you a few select stories and updates from our students at the Ganze Girls Secondary School in northern Kenya. Many of these girls...
View ArticleGanze Girls Secondary School
In a three-part series of posts, we will share with you stories and achievements from students at the Ganze Girls Secondary School in northern Kenya. In our first post we introduced you to Faith...
View ArticleGanze Girls Secondary School
In a three-part series of posts, we will share with you stories and achievements from students at the Ganze Girls Secondary School in northern Kenya. In our first two post we introduced you to Faith...
View ArticleAtanga Girls Secondary School: Phase 2
Lotte Davis Journal Diary This is my sixth trip to Northern Uganda since 2009, when we first started to rebuild Atanga Girls School. The 20-year war incited by Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance...
View ArticleTeam Effort
Chatters and AG Hair have always had a lot in common: both were started by husband and wife teams 26 years ago in Canada, essentially from nothing, and each have grown to earn separate distinctions...
View ArticleLean In: Lotte Davis
We’re so proud to have AG’s CEO and Co-Founder, Lotte Davis featured on Lean-In.org. Lean In is an organization founded by author Sheryl Sandberg and “focuses on encouraging women to pursue their...
View ArticleGifts that Give Back
Choosing the perfect present for our nearest and dearest can be stressful. Finding a gift that is as useful and thoughtful as it is affordable is always a daunting task. But giving back can be the...
View ArticleEvery Bottle Counts
The Numbers Don’t Add Up: 500 African School Girls, 400 Beds, 4 Toilets, 0 Showers. Since 2008, AG Hair’s Women Leading Change Foundation (WLC) has been building schools for girls in Africa. 10 cents...
View ArticleEMPOWER ME
Since starting Women Leading Change, AG Hair’s CEO and Co-Founder Lotte Davis, started mentoring and leading workshops for the girls in Africa called, Empower Me. Read more about the influential and...
View ArticleThe Vancouver Sun
Lotte Davis: AG founder’s philanthropy fills an empty nest When the second of her two daughters moved out of the family home, Lotte Davis embarked on a project that would make her a mother again — to...
View ArticleSearching for Rahma
I first met Rahma in 2008, in the Kibera Slums in Nairobi. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and the conditions were beyond shocking. Rahma was a student at a totally dilapidated primary school...
View ArticleREFLECTING ON THE 10 YEAR MILESTONE
In 2008, I went to Africa with the intent to impact gender inequality for girls, but with no real blueprint for how we could achieve this. I can’t say there weren’t a few obstacles along the way, but...
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