Keep The Louding Voice Going: Support Girls' Scholarships 🎭

Dear Amazing You,

Let me introduce Adunni, the main character in my novel The Girl with the Louding Voice and its award-winning sequel, And So I Roar.

Adunni is funny, determined, and full of dreams, but life keeps getting in her way: poverty, forced labour, early marriage, and lack of access to education. Adunni's story is fiction. But her story is the reality for millions of girls in Nigeria. This is why I started a scary thing: The Louding Voice Foundation.

Last October, in partnership with the Ovie Brume Foundation, we brought The Girl with the Louding Voice to the stage in Lagos, performed by children from underserved communities and shown free to thousands of schoolchildren. That night, scholarships were placed into the hands of girls who were about to leave school because life had made it too hard to stay, covering fees, uniforms, books, and safe transport.

We're keeping this page open, and we've kept the same link, for transparency. We've kept the original target of £12k. As of writing, we've raised roughly £7k but around half of that has already gone into staging the play and getting those scholarships into girls' hands.

We wanted to keep this page the same so you can see that journey, rather than starting somewhere new.

This remains the easiest way for many of you to give, and you can now also choose to give monthly if you'd like to support girls' education on an ongoing basis.

You can also send Naira directly to our Nigerian account, including via transfer apps like LemFi:

Account Name: The Louding Voice Education and Empowerment Foundation

Bank: FCMB

Account Number: 2004677876

Currency: Naira

There are over 10.5 million children out of school in Nigeria, and 60% of them are girls. Education breaks cycles of poverty, reduces child marriage, and builds stronger communities.

£75 provides essentials for one girl: books, a uniform, a schoolbag, and a dignity kit.

£350 keeps a girl in school for a year: fees, books, uniform, and safe transport.

Your donation is hope and a future teacher, doctor, entrepreneur, or leader. Because of you, a girl can always boldy declare,

Thank you, everyone, for being here, for caring, and for helping me give these girls a chance to find their own louding voices.

With all my heart,

Abi Daré

Chief Louding Officer of the Louding Voice Foundation