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Empowering Communities to lead their own development News and Stories Join Us at the Hearth Summit This Celebrating 50 Years Together Building for the next 50 years with a new generation of leaders In Partnership for Community Wellbeing Tostans Strategy 20232030 Tostan an NGO established in 1991 and headquartered in Dakar Senegal works to empower rural and remote African communities to bring about positive social transformation and sustainable development through a holistic empowering education program. Our human rightsbased program has reached more than five million people across eight African countries. Womens Empowerment women have been selected for leadership positions in their communities with many running for public office Health people live in communities that publicly declared their intention to end female genital cutting Child Marriage communities have publicly declared that their daughters will not marry before the age of 18 The Tostan Model Our threeyear nonformal education program puts rural communities in charge of their own futures. We support our partner communities to define and fulfill their own vision for wellbeing allowing them to create positive and lasting social transformation.