by akate | May 27, 2015 | FAWE, Kravis Leadership Institute, Kravis Prize Intern
This is the second part of a two-part series. Click here to read about the first part of Juetzinia’s experience at FAWE as a Kravis Prize Intern. Interning with FAWE Zanzibar, though not stressful, was full of surprises that pushed our team to think collaboratively and creatively─which is something I really loved while interning there. Every day was challenging and different, allowing me to pursue leadership opportunities within the chapter. One particular experience that has impacted me greatly was the 3-day intensive teacher training I developed and co-taught at the Center of Excellence in the village of Kijini. While sitting in the office one day, the head teacher at the Center of Excellence stopped by to ask Khadija Shariff, the national director, for help assessing student mastery of material inside the classroom. Sitting at the table he welcomed me into the conversation and I offered holding a teacher professional development workshop that would teach Active Participation techniques that allow teachers to check for understanding throughout the lesson. From there, we began brainstorming the format of the workshop so that these teaching techniques would fit both the culture and context of the Center of Excellence. Teaching this workshop was not only a blast, but also taught me a lot about my own positionality coming into new contexts and how to work cross-culturally. I loved working on this project because the teachers were given the space to think through the issues they were having and problem solve creatively. Our role was to act as facilitators. Here, I was able to see the power of education and creativity in raw form, which...
by akate | May 13, 2015 | FAWE, Kravis Leadership Institute, Kravis Prize Intern
Throughout my academic career at Claremont McKenna College (CMC), I’ve had the privilege of working and interning in a variety of environments, all of which have shaped my dreams of being a life-long educator and advocate. My internship with Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Zanzibar, though, was an experience that has shaped who I am and who I want to be in more ways than I thought was possible. FAWE was the 2008 Kravis Prize recipient and is a wonderful organization dedicated to the empowerment of women and girls through gender-responsive education. I was able to be a part of this mission, and a lot more, while interning on the beautiful island of Zanzibar, Tanzania in the summer of 2013. Just thinking about Zanzibar puts a smile on my face, as my time with FAWE has reinforced my love for education and my dedication to fighting injustices I see in the world. As a sophomore, I did not completely know what I was doing at CMC. I was a math and spanish major with an interest in education and civic engagement, but had absolutely no idea what this actually could look like as a career or even an internship! (I still don’t, but this unknown now excites me.) When you think about it, my academic interests really don’t make that much “sense,” and looking at my peers who had a “clearer” trajectory at CMC made me question what I should be dedicating my time and summers to. However, hearing about the internship opportunity at FAWE Zanzibar reassured me that my academic interests and my choices at CMC DO...
by nowchar | 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 MasterCard Foundation to increase educational chances for girls in villages across the continent. The 2008 recipient of the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership, Fawe’s efforts (since its founding in 1992) have included an ongoing partnership with The MasterCard Foundation Scholar Program to provide scholarships in some of the neediest countries, such as Rwanda, and now that partnership is extending its support to Ethiopia with a new scholarship program. According to an announcement by Fawe, the MCF Scholars Program has been launched this month in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and will provide comprehensive scholarship packages to some 800 young students. While Fawe has impacted the lives of an estimated 24 million school-age African girls over the past 23 years, the organization’s work with the MCF extends to school children of both genders as a way of improving the general welfare of all people in these towns and villages. The 800 Ethiopian awards will go to 600 girls and 200 boys as a part of the NGO’s mission to promote “gender equity and equality in Africa by fostering positive policies, practices, and attitudes towards girls’ education” by extending opportunities to all members of their communities. To read more about FAWE, visit the Kravis Prize...
by lwang | Dec 1, 2014 | BRAC USA, Entrepreneurship, Escuela Nueva, FAWE, Helen Keller International, INJAZ Al-Arab, Kravis Prize, Right 2 Play, Soraya Salti
What are you doing next summer? Since 2006, the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership has been building a special community among its recipients, whose premier organizations are dedicated to improving the lives of millions of people around the globe. That community also extends to Claremont McKenna College’s students, who will have a chance to learn about working with past Prize recipients in the summer of 2015 during the Kravis Prize Internship Fair, which will be held this Thursday afternoon, December 4, 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., in the Freeberg Lounge. Find out about Kravis Prize internships offered both domestically by BRAC USA and Helen Keller International (both in New York City) and internationally by Right To Play, Escuela Nueva, FAWE, Pratham, and INJAZ Al-Arab (Canada, Colombia, Tanzania, India, and Jordan, respectively). The internship program, which is the result of a partnership between the Kravis Prize and the Kravis Leadership Institute at CMC, has enabled CMCers like Carolyn Islam ’16 (pictured above during her internship last summer with BRAC in Dhaka) to receive firsthand experience in problem-solving and applied entrepreneurship as it’s practiced by leaders in the non-profit sector. Students attending Thursday’s internship fair will receive additional internship details, information about the application process, and also have a chance to listen to the stories of classmates who have already participated in this singular internship program. What does Pratham do? What is the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) all about? What organization interests you? Learn more about these past recipients and others by visiting the home page of the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership at Claremont McKenna College. Are you...
by nowchar | 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 bias to the boy,” FAWE Executive Director Hendrina Doroba told the Kenyan newspaper The Star in a recent interview. Doroba outlined the efforts of FAWE, which is the 2008 recipient of the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership, to empower school-age girls across the African continent. That includes depictions of women in picture- and textbooks, which FAWE has been able to address thanks to several successful partnerships. “We engaged with the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development … vigorously and they looked at removing some of the pictures and set up a committee to ensure books are gender responsive,” Doroba explained. The organization has also teamed up with teachers to “improve their gender pedagogical skills” as well as their awareness and compassion for the circumstances of young female students. Founded in 1992, FAWE’s mission has been to educate and empower an estimated 24 million school-age women in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the past 22 years, FAWE has expanded its operations into 32 African countries. Despite the organization’s progress, however, Doroba acknowledged that there is still much work to do, many obstacles to confront that are not always obvious. Schoolbook gender bias, for example, can be very subtle even though it leads to more disruptive situations, including school-related gender violence, she said. Doroba’s interview with The Star also reports on the organization’s other efforts to improve educational opportunities. Such improvements are not...
by nowchar | Oct 6, 2014 | FAWE, Female Empowerment, Health, Helen Keller International, Kravis Prize
Teenager Abigail Mortey has a clear vision: to manufacture a mosquito repellent aimed to control malaria in Ghana. The Forum for African Women Educationalist (FAWE), a non-governmental organization founded to support education for girls across Africa and a 2008 recipient of the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership, selected Miss Mortey as the winner of this year’s FAWE Science and Technology competition, according to VibeGhana.com. Mortey was among 18 other contestants who invented various technologies on FAWE’s theme this year: “Enhancing the study of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Among Girls in Ghana.” FAWE hopes that competitions and programs like this one will help unearth undiscovered talent within the country’s female population. Seeking to inspire girls to take a role in their education, FAWE aims to help girls assume their integral role in solving the urgent problems affecting Ghana and the rest of the African continent. Founded in 1992, FAWE is now the leading non-governmental organization directly confronting issues of girls’ education in Africa. The threat of mosquitoes and malaria is an issue that FAWE has in common with many other organizations, especially Helen Keller International, which distributes Vitamin A capsules to children and breastfeeding mothers to boost their immunity against the risk of infection. Like FAWE, HKI is also a recipient of the Kravis Prize, which it was awarded earlier this year. RELATED: More about the Kravis Prize Kravis Prize Blog: More ‘bucks’ for Landesa Kravis Prize Blog: Victoria Beckham empties her closets for mothers2mothers...
