Blog by FAWE Kenya Crises can exacerbate the hurdles girls face in education, including sexual and gender-based violence, teenage pregnancy and child marriage. In Kenya, girls from Turkana host communities and urban refugee girls in Eastleigh informal settlement, Nairobi, are disadvantaged at all stages of education and struggle to learn given the high levels of […]
By David Omoding FAWE Uganda The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Uganda Chapter held a National Dialogue with Members of Parliament to find practical solutions and end all forms of sexual and gender based violence mated on girls and young women, following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. The dialogue focused on […]
By FAWE Somalia My name is Saynab Mohamed Diriye and I am 31 years old. I am Married and I have Seven Children, I dropped out of school in the year 1999 and I have never gotten the opportunity to proceed any further. I have a small business, a shop, in waciye district of the Kar-kaar region of puntland. A lot has changed for […]
The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) in collaboration with the African Network Campaign on Education for All (ANCEFA) organized a training workshop on Gender Responsive Planning (GRESP) for civil society actors working in the field of education and gender. Participants from 14 different countries, including representatives of civil society organizations and other partner organizations, […]
A new UNESCO global study, When Schools Shut: Gendered impacts of COVID-19 school closures, exposes failure to factor in gender in COVID-19 education responses and widening gaps in access to quality education following school closures. Citing some 90 countries, including nearly 30 in Africa, the study shows that despite governments’ and partners’ swift responses to […]
Not that long ago, Maria Tswayi ran a few cattle on communal land in Masilonyana village near Theunissen in the Free State. Today, with the help of fellow black farmers and the Sernick Group, Maria is an award-winning farmer well on her way to commercial success. She tells Peter Mashala how hard work and consistent […]
WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN GIVEN? Never try to run a business by remote control. You must be where your business is so that you know everything that happens there. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY IF YOU COULD? Everything I have done has worked out as it should […]
What inspired you to start your company? I am an agronomic engineer with experience in local seed production and achieved my master degree in local development and tourism management in 2012. Since then, as my grandparents are barred at Ibo island, I found the opportunity to preserve the local and native species (Coffea racemosa Lour […]
Nogaye’s professional and academic background includes a scientific baccalaureate, and joined the SVT course at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar. Convinced that it was not at the FAC that she would thrive, she enrolled in international business at ISM Dakar while working as a hostess and marketing agent for Philippe Morris. It was […]
by Sibongile Mtsabe Better ideas, solutions, and innovations are inside of you. When you were born, you were born to impact others. It is up to you to discover your talents and work on them to grow and be better, day by day. When you believe in yourself, in a way you influence others to […]