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November 12, 2021
November 12, 2021
CAMFED Women's Education
CAMFED, a women's education association has been working with thousands to transform women's lives, achieving their goal of helping 4.88 million girls receive quality education and 178,000 women become powerful leaders as an individual. The association originates in Africa, where women learn to become leaders and face challenges in their country such as unemployment, child marriage, girl's exclusion from education, and even climate change.
In Africa, poverty is known to be one of the greatest barrier to education that girls face. This is due to many households earning 1.25$ a day, lacking financial support to send their children to school and unable to support their family in general. To tackle these kinds of situations, CAMFED's secondary school support girl's education by speaking to parents or guardians of poor homes for permission to coordinate proper education for free.
While they support girl's education, the association works to focus in the economic development of the country and teach women the proper needs a country requires, increasing their skills and enabling women's opportunities to grow rural enterprises, supporting themselves and the community.
Link: https://camfed.org/us/
November 5, 2021
November 5, 2021
B.C. Women and Girls in STEAM Week
British Columbia, Canada, has hosted a Women and Girls in STEAM Week, an occasion to honor the accomplishments of women and non-binary persons in science, technology, engineering, art and design, and math (STEAM) and to inspire more women and girls to pursue technology-related fields of study.
"While the number of young women succeeding in science and math in school continues to rise, there is still a significant gender disparity in higher education and STEAM employment." - Brenda Bailey, Parliamentary Secretary for Technology and Innovation, Anne Kang, Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Training, Grace Lore, Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity, and Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Education
Today, women make up fewer than one-third of those working in technology and tech-enabled jobs in British Columbia.
Today, B.C. is collaborating with Innovate BC, Mitacs, and the Information and Communications Technology Council to help up to 3,000 people from under-represented communities, including women and non-binary people, 2SLGBTQ+, Indigenous, Black, and people of color, get their first job in the tech sector or in a tech-enabled role, through the Innovator Skills Initiative program. The province's $15 million commitment is being matched by the partners, bringing the total investment in the initiative to $29 million.
B.C. is also investing $7 million through the Digital Technology Supercluster to support the Canadian Tech Talent Accelerator program, which will assist up to 2,000 unemployed and underemployed youth and young adults from under-represented communities, including women, in improving their tech skills and knowledge.
What happened for the US Rhodes Scholars for 2022?
This year's class selected the most women ever for the scholarship. Indeed, of the 32 students set to study at the University of Oxford in England, 22 are women. Much like the previous year, the process was virtually operated, where are endorsed by their universities then selected through an application that includes an interview. Furthermore, a growing range of universities elected students to their classes. For instance, Clemson University in South Carolina had a student elected for the first time, and Claremont McKenna College, Mount Holyoke College, and Union College have recipients for the first time in 25 years.
How can our society benefit from this?
As highly demanded higher education in Europe and America is, the influence they have on the world is extensive.
October 29, 2021
October 29, 2021
Basara's Shatt al-Arab Education
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, there have been various struggles that the countries were faced with, one of them being education. In Iraq, the pandemic caused schools to shut down, which put a lot of girls' academic future at risk. To prevent any further decrease in education, there are multiple organizations that supported these girls in regaining access to learning.
On October 11, 2021 the International Day of Girl Child, the UN program to help girls in that region to keep learning, and spread awareness and help those girls regain their access to education. UNICEF and the World Food Programme also assisted by working to educate 2,570 primary school children from Basara’s Shatt al-Arab district. Some families were funded to gain financial support to achieve their academic goals. According to the headteacher in Basra, Principal Zainab Karim, “Many schoolchildren...share the same phone as their moms and dads. The students benefit from having their own phones. If they don’t need a new one for e-learning, the families can use the money to pay for transport, daily expenses, or clothing.” With online learning being one of the main forms of education, mobile phones were seen to be popular amongst families. To further support the girls' education, the UN agencies introduced a club provided with a safe environment to learn new tech skills called “Shatt al-Arab Coding Club for Girls” for the first time.
The countless support from these organizations enabled girls to stay in school and complete their education, expanding their opportunities. Marrying and working too early for financial stability was seen to be one of the major issues in Iraq, hence by addressing and supporting those aspects, girls were not only able to maintain their education but also prevented them from forced marriages and child labor.
500-Mile Walk Celebrates 250 years of Women's Education
About four dozen participants began on a nearly 500-mile journey. This all began in 1766 when about two dozen Moravians set off on a celebrated journey from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Bethabara, North Carolina. Presently, that new location promptly developed as a home to a new girls school called the Salem Academy and College. Therefore, to acknowledge the 250th anniversary of Women's Education, three Pennsylvania women are teaming up with dozens of others to start the same journey.
The walkers will cover about 500 miles through four states approximately in about a month. This will mirror the first journey that took place 250 years ago which lead to the development of the oldest educational organisation for girls and women in the United States.
Here is the link to the website: LINK
September 29, 2021
September 29, 2021
What is going on in Afghanistan?
Uncertainties on women's education have emerged following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Indeed, the new Taliban-appointed chancellor of Kabul University, Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat has addressed his approach to bar women from attending universities or contributing to the nation's workforce "until an Islamic environment is created." Furthermore, Ghairat has articulated the university's plan to adapt their education system for women's education by enabling "male lecturers to be able to teach female students from behind a curtain in the classroom" with the reasoning being the "shortage of female lecturers." Henceforth, Afghan women have been expressing their aspirations to re-embark on their educational journeys and fulfill their occupational ambitions.
How can we help?
Donations:
Sahar is an organization that has been dedicated to promoting women's education since 2001. Over the years, the organization has sent staff members to Afghanistan for the purpose of educating women and supported stabilizing schools with funds from donations.
Awareness:
Let the word out, inform your community on current affairs, and refer to our Make Your Contribution tab for more approaches.
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