2024-08-12T13:07:35-07:00 2023-12-31 200076308 Henry Waters & Associates Inc 4740 Table Mesa Drive Boulder CO 80305 990 2023-01-01 203719670 GIRLS WITH BOOKS GIRL 3038298842 PO BOX 57 BOULDER CO 80306 MICHAEL RITTER Treasurer 2024-08-08 true true STEVEN T HENRY P00393813 3034944050 2023 2024-08-08 14:25:15Z PO BOX 57 BOULDER CO 803060057 215566 false X www.girlswithbooks.org X 2005 CO Our mission is to provide an education through the completion of high school for girls of South Sudan. This includes girls that reside in South Sudan and refugee girls who fled with their families from the ongoing civil war in and now live in Ugandan refugee camps. Girls With Books! sends these girls to established boarding schools in Uganda. GWB provides for all in both countries; the girls tuition, room & board, school supplies, bedding & clothing, including school uniforms, and transportation costs. 13 12 1 0 136790 181285 0 804 1719 22708 16875 160302 199879 0 0 9054 70470 0 17016 83193 97681 92247 168151 68055 31728 204716 242214 4087 204716 238127 Our mission is to provide an education through the completion of high school for girls of South Sudan. This includes girls that reside in South Sudan and refugee girls who fled with their families from the ongoing civil war in and now live in Ugandan refugee camps. Girls With Books! sends these girls to established boarding schools in Uganda. GWB provides for all in both countries; the girls tuition, room & board, school supplies, bedding & clothing, including school uniforms, and transportation costs. false false 133526 We currently support the education of 106 girls, ages 12 to 20. The interrupted schooling due to the conflict and natural disasters in this region of Africa, makes it so that many of our students are older when they matriculate into secondary school. At present, we support 56 students in South Sudan; 17 in primary school and 39 in secondary school. In Uganda, we support 50 students, from 6 different refugee camps, and send them to well established boarding schools that also have Ugandan students. Of the 50 students, 16 are in primary school and 34 are in secondary school.Since our merger in October 2022, 96 girls have graduated from secondary school. To provide these girls with a post graduate education, we created a basic computer skills course in Juba, South Sudan. 30 girls came to this class in 2022-2023. We continue to stay in touch with our graduates and provide opportunities for the girls to meet periodically.Another project that was started in 2015, but put on hold since the civil conflict, is the building of a campus near Torit, South Sudan in a town called Isalaro. This region of South Sudan has no schools, and we had hoped to provide an education for the children who live there from primary through secondary school. We had secured the land and were working with water and architectural engineers when the fighting broke out.The oral history project that chronicled the plight of the refugee girls that were settled in Boulder in 2006, led to the creation of a documentary: The Dawn Will Break. It was most recently shown at the University of Colorado Conference of World Affairs in April 2023. 133526 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 false 1 false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 13 12 false false true false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false MICHAEL RITTER 3038298842 PO BOX 57 BOULDER CO 803060057 MICKLINA PETER KENYI Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 60000 0 0 LAWRENCE WONGO Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DONNA LESTER Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MICHAEL RITTER Treasurer 25.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ELIZABETH ACHULO Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 OMUNU ABALU Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 STELLA LUNYARAMOI Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 RAY STRANSKE Board Chair 30.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JIM BROYLES Director 20.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DINAH FREY Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 LEE ANN HUNTINGTON Director 30.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 LILY RIBIERO STOBIE Director 10.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KEN SCOTT Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 60000 0 false false false 0 181285 181285 0 1719 1719 0 0 0 0 32562 15687 16875 0 0 0 199879 1719 0 0 0 0 60000 40068 10908 9024 0 0 0 5880 3927 1069 884 4590 3065 835 690 0 0 1929 1929 0 0 0 0 0 1542 1030 280 232 697 465 127 105 0 0 16266 16266 0 0 0 0 3315 640 2675 1429 1429 PROGRAMMING - UGANDA REFUGEES 39170 39170 PROGRAMMING - KIT SCHOOL 27422 27422 SOFTWARE 2925 2925 FOREIGN BANK FEES 1152 1152 1834 961 392 481 168151 133526 17609 17016 80480 20390 43373 141088 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2000 1040 1600 960 73844 77032 0 0 4012 1337 1407 1407 204716 242214 4087 0 4087 X 204716 238127 204716 238127 204716 242214 31728 1683 X false false false X 28147 33525 81091 159498 213898 516159 0 0 28147 33525 81091 159498 213898 516159 0 516159 18 11 14 804 1719 2566 0 0 518725 0.99510 0.99740 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 2000 1040 960 960 CREDIT CARD PAYABLE 4087 4087 false FUNDRAISING EVENTS 32562 32562 15687 32562 32562 15687 15687 16875 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 4 In 2023, our amended Articles of Incorporation to formally accept our name change to Girls With Books! was formally accepted by the Colorado Secretary of State, Colorado Department of Revenue, cities of Denver and Boulder and the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b No review was or will be conducted. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 No documents available to the public.