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Changing 800 lives with Fawe

Changing 800 lives with Fawe

by mbeck | Mar 26, 2015 | Education, FAWE, Female Empowerment, MasterCard Foundation

What career paths do young African girls have?  For many across Sub-Saharan Africa, opportunities have been limited primarily to a life spent in poverty in the roles of mother and wife.  But the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) is working with The...
Sakena Yacoobi: ‘Education is not a threat’

Sakena Yacoobi: ‘Education is not a threat’

by mbeck | Feb 25, 2015 | AIL, Education, Kravis Prize, Sakena Yacoobi

In the pages of the Christian Science Monitor, Afghan Institute of Learning founder Sakena Yacoobi offers a passionate commentary about lowering the cultural barriers to educating women and girls with outreach that includes males, too. “The women who come to our...
Education gains checked by challenges, new Pratham report shows

Education gains checked by challenges, new Pratham report shows

by mbeck | Feb 11, 2015 | Education, Kravis Prize, Poverty Reduction, Pratham

Are education efforts and outreach to children in rural India producing positive results? The answer is both encouraging and troubling, according to NGO Pratham’s 10th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), released this week in New Delhi. “While more...
‘He is a pilot, she is cooking’: FAWE combats schoolbook gender bias

‘He is a pilot, she is cooking’: FAWE combats schoolbook gender bias

by mbeck | Nov 5, 2014 | Community Development, Education, FAWE, Female Empowerment, Kravis Prize

Educational materials in Kenyan classrooms still portray old stereotypes of “boys as heroes and girls as weak,” says the executive director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE). “The current methods of teaching carry a lot of gender...

Webinar Focuses on How Nonprofits Can Make Mission Matter

by mbeck | Jun 17, 2014 | Education, Entrepreneurship, Kravis Prize, Sakena Yacoobi

“Mission creep” is a pervasive and extremely debilitating problem that afflicts all too many nonprofit organizations. According to presenters Kim Starkey Jonker and William F. Meehan III, it is the No. 1 reason why nonprofits fail to achieve the impact for...
‘He is a pilot, she is cooking’: FAWE combats schoolbook gender bias

For FAWE in Rwanda, 1,200 is a magic number

by mbeck | May 16, 2014 | Community Development, Education, FAWE, Female Empowerment

Why is 1,200 a magic number? Because it refers to all of the young Rwandan women from vulnerable families who will have a chance to finish their schooling thanks to a project co-created by the Rwandan Chapter of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE). The...
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2015 Endeavor

2014 Helen Keller International

2013 Right To Play

2012 INJAZ Al-Arab

2012 mothers2mothers

2011 Fundación Escuela Nueva

2010 Pratham

2009 Afghan Institute of Learning

2008 FAWE

2007 BRAC

2006 Landesa

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