Avril Mundy, BTea, Teacher & Children’s Pastor, Kingsway Community Church.

Esteem Designz is a program that enables girls to share themselves with other women and their peers in a safe environment. Through creativity the girls were able to shine as individuals and came to recognize that their differences should be celebrated and encouraged not to be a point of criticism or fear.

With every session I witnessed the girls begin to form a tighter community as they came to know one another through conversation and sharing times. By the final session many girls were very keen to continue the relationships that they had developed over the course of the program and were sad to see it come to an end.

The weekly take home activities were received very well.

Many girls took the journal activities very seriously and gained much insight into their strengths and weaknesses through the completion of these reflection tasks in their own time.

All of the creative projects were engaging, clearly outlined and highlighted a positive self-esteem message.

The girls looked forward to this quiet and active time each week and were always amazed at and proud of what they had created at the end of each session.

I would encourage any organization working with young women to consider using this program. I found it very useful to train my young female leaders, to build positive community among the young women on my team and to get to know them in a very comfortable, healthy and fun program.