• #hydroponics
• Awesome Blossoms
• Education

By Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland, and Leslie Janoe, AWC Amsterdam)

This article is a follow-up to April’s Education Team article about the Wageningen University graduate students and their consultation with Awesome Blossoms (AB). The consultation project promoted learning for both the Wageningen students and the Awesome Blossoms team in Nairobi.

Wageningen University & Research (WUR), one of the world’s top...

• human rights
• 16 days
• GBV

By Karen Castellon (FAWCO co-UN Liaison, FAUSA, AWC Berlin, AWAquitane), Mary Adams (AWC The Hague, Human Rights co-chair), Marelie Manders (Heidelberg IWC and Human Rights co-chair), and Laurie Richardson (AWA Vienna)

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence was launched in 1991 by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. The Center...

• climate refugees
• asylum seekers
• cultural exchange

by Jody McBrien, AWG and AAWE Paris

Five or six years ago, I came across the organization NaTakallam, founded by Aline Sara, a young Lebanese woman who had just completed her master’s in International Affairs at Columbia University. NaTakallam means “we speak” in Arabic. It began as an online language exchange/learning program hiring refugees and asylum seekers to teach...

By Marina LeGree, Founder and Executive Director, Ascend

Edited by Karen Castellon, FAWCO co-UN Liaison

Ascend, an NGO dedicated to empowering Afghan girls through education and community engagement, received a $4,000 grant from the FAWCO Foundation in 2021 to support its Sports for Health Teaching Curriculum. This project was aimed at promoting health, leadership, and life skills among Afghan...

by Karen Castellon, FAWCO co-UN Liaison, Stephanie Biery, FAUSA, and Marina LeGree, Founder and Executive Director of Ascend

Graduation and New Cohorts

September 18 and 19 marked a significant milestone for Ascend, as we celebrated the graduation of 49 girls from the program. Their hard work and dedication have culminated in this moment, where they received certificates acknowledging their...

• neurodivergency
• dyscalculia
• dysgraphia

by Gabriele Maier, AIWC Düsseldorf

FAWCO’s Education Team has dedicated the months of September and October to numeracy and literacy – to our ability to understand, interpret and work with numbers and letters. 

Globally, the literacy rate is around 86% but varies significantly from country to country, with sub-Saharan Africa being only 65%. For numeracy, the numbers are much...