Personal Stories:
Making a Difference
Jenee
Women Helping Girls does help young girls and helps them to progress to become women. It helps us to learn from elder women and mentors.... The mentors made mistakes and we benefit from what they've learned. Also, listening to other young women discussing problems they encountered while attending college encourages me to pursue more education. — Jenee
Briana
Women Helping Girls has helped me in many ways. I’ve been in the group since I was 12 years old, and since then I have chosen what I want to do for a career. I’ve even found out that I have another talent, which is writing. This program is great and I recommend it for every girl. They also taught me to be a strong woman and taught me my history of strong women.—
Briana
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Features
Congratulations, Seniors! Our vision is for our girls to "enter young adulthood with the social, emotional, and academic skills needed to be successful in a diverse world." The young women who are graduating from high school this year exemplify these goals with personal stories of hard work, persistence, and dreams for the future. We are very proud of them, and we join their families and friends in applauding this milestone.
Meet Our 2011 Graduates
(Clockwise) Erica, Shaniqua, Niasia, and Laxmi. Not pictured: Kentra and Maryam..
WHG Achievements 2010-2011
The year saw WHG in transition, with our girls involved in meaningful and fun activities. Here are some of the notable achievements:
- We added new staff and many new volunteers, and we completed a technology upgrade to our offices to better serve our girls, staff, volunteers, and donors.
- We received recognition and grants from several prestigious local organizations and grantors.
- Women Helping Girls would like to thank K2 Communications who redesigned our new logo and did a fabulous job with our identity.
You're in the process of interacting with our new website! Enjoy. We think it's great.
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Upcoming Events
 November 12: Around the Horn
December 1: Garth Fagan for Seniors
December 7: People's Pottery Fundraiser
December 10: Treasured Traditions
Recent Events
October 14: PJ Pizza Party
October 19: Quarterly Gathering of WHG Mentors and Future Mentors, AAUW Carriage House
September 16-17:
Bunk with the Beasts! Nine girls slept over at Seneca Park Zoo, protected by their fearless leaders (Skye Byrd, Julie Madlin and Amy Kauffman). We received tours of the zoo, nocturnal and morning, an animal presentation, made enrichment items for the animals, toured the diet kitchen, and celebrated a mentee's birthday!
September 21: Rochester Mentors Expo: The March to Mentoring began at Manhattan Square Park and finished at the Harro East Ballroom to begin the Rochester Mentors Expo.
June 4:
Our Annual Picnic at the Wegman's Lodge in Seneca Park celebrated the end of the academic year and brought together the girls, their families, mentors, and volunteers in a casual and warm environment.
May 11:
"Friends of Women Helping Girls Event," sponsored by WHG and
Monroe Community College, to create a circle of friends to help promote WHG, alert us to opportunities for programming and funding, and offer their skills and talents to WHG.
Other Events >>
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