In our Blog: Let's Get Schooled we will explore why education matters; we will examine the barriers, one by one, which impede women and girls from accessing quality education and completing their studies; we will become familiar with the strategies to address these issues; and we will discover who the leaders in world education are.
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Amanda Lane, Executive Director
Collateral Repair Project
Starting a new class can be scary for anyone, but especially for refugees. New environments bring mixed emotions as they struggle with past trauma. They can find it hard to trust others, believe in themselves, or to work in groups. But there’s one universal: an uneasy student can feel a lot...
75 million school-aged children and youth are in desperate need of educational support, either in danger of, or already missing out on their education. Communities highlight the importance of education during times of crises, yet education appeals receive less than 2% of humanitarian funding. The right to education is most at risk during emergencies but it is also the exact...
The Target Program is one of FAWCO’s primary means to fulfill its mission as a United Nations accredited non-governmental organization (NGO) with special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Along with FAWCO's representatives who attend UN meetings, FAWCO’s Global Issues Teams also focus on issues related to women and children in FAWCO's priority areas: education, environment,
Amanda Lane, Executive Director
Collateral Repair Project
Hello FAWCO friends!
As summer lulls to a close, all of us at Collateral Repair Project are taking a short breather after two weeks of very busy Back to School distributions. It's Eid Al Adha holiday, the end of which will find us finishing up the last of our...
In May 2016 FAWCO put out a call for proposals for the Target Program for Education. By the September 30th deadline, eighteen Target Project applications were received from members representing Regions 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, and FAUSA. On January 6th, three shortlisted projects were presented to members for them to cast their vote. On April 1st, Hope...
In this issue of Let’s Get Schooled, Sahar Elhallak, Target Fundraising Coordinator for The FAWCO Foundation introduces the Backing Women Fundraising Campaign for Education. Funds raised over the course of the next two years will support the FAWCO Target Project, Hope Beyond Displacement.
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Sahar Elhallak from AIWC Rabat in...
On April 1, 2017, Hope Beyond Displacement was announced as the 2017-2019 Target Project at FAWCO Biennial Conference in Mumbai, India. In this issue of Let’s Get Schooled, Amanda Lane, Executive Director of Collateral Repair Project introduces her organization to FAWCO members and shares the important educational impact Hope Beyond Displacement will have on the lives of refugee women...
We’re going to Mumbai! What better time to learn about girls’ education in India. Let’s first look at some basic population statistics sourced from the CIA’s World Factbook:
Population ca. 1,267,000,000
Nearly 27% of the population is 14 years or younger and 18% are 15 - 24 years old; median age is 27; life expectancy is 68.5 years.
India’s fertility rate...
"The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves." - John Adams, U.S. President, 1785
In a...
By Maryam Khoshoei, AIWC Cologne, FAWCO Youth
Maryam participated the 3rd FAWCO Youth Cultural Volunteers Program traveling to Mumbai, India in the summer of August 2015. Today, Maryam is 20 years old and studying Gender and Diversity at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Cleves.
Living abroad has been a life changing experience for me. I was born in...
Beogo NeereA project of the TuaRes Foundation - submitted by Ann Goossens, AILO Florence
Educating and Empowering Refugee Women and Girls in JordanA project of the Collateral Repair Project - submitted by Therese Hartwell, FAUSA
Threading the FutureA project of the Stahili Foundation... |
“Education is one of the most critical areas of empowerment for women. When girls are educated, they lead healthier and more productive lives. . . . An educated girl has a positive ripple effect on her health, family, community and society as a whole." - USAID
In this issue of Let’s Get Schooled I would like to explore why the above...
The 2016 theme for the Rutgers 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign is "From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World: Make Education Safe for All!"
Each year the FAWCO Human Rights Team asks members to participate in the campaign from November 25 - December 10. Given the connection to education, we have asked Therese Hartwell, Chair of the...
Last month the 2016 GEM-Report - Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all was published. It replaces the EFA Global Monitoring Report and has a newly defined mandate to report on the progress of education under the 2030 Agenda. This is the first of a 15 part series, which will report on the progress of SDG4 and will explore...
And we’re back!
Having taken the first few articles in this blog to lay some groundwork about global education we are now going to dive deeper into the issues. We are going to begin by looking at POVERTY.
Why Poverty? Because where it exists there is little hope and there is much desperation. It steals individual’s potential, denies them their...
Picking up where we left off last month, we will explore the research on global education.
I wanted to go hide under my blanket or better yet binge watch Game of Thrones as I tackled this blog issue… But I pushed through… if we don’t understand where the data is coming from and how...
This was one of the first things I tried to wrap my head around when I began delving into the issues concerning global education for women and girls. I found it interesting that concern for global education issues follows a similar timeline as the evolution of modern market globalization. So we don’t need to go back too far to understand...
Well, I’m breaking the rules already! I promised you an issue dedicated to the big picture of global education: a look at the UN and leaders in global education to better understand the 2030 Agenda for education. Instead, I am highlighting the application process for the next Target Project.
I have good reason: the Application Packet was just released on...
Welcome to our inaugural blog post! It’s a little experiment to get our message out. “What message?” you ask... Education is vital to the well-being of women and girls.
The FAWCO Target Program 2016 - 2019: Education – Empowering Women and Girls through Knowledge and Skills was launched at the FAWCO Interim Meeting in Frankfurt (March 11-13, 2016).
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