A Life Changing Experience for SEGA & Agnes Irwin Students Earlier in June a group of Agnes Irwin students from outside Philadelphia spent a week at SEGA. It was an amazing week for both SEGA and AIS students – learning, growing, laughing and changing together. Below are two excepts from thoughtful and beautifully articulated essays written by
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Girls Bridge Cultural Differences to Bond Over Similarities One year ago a group of students from the Agnes Irwin School (AIS) visited the SEGA School for the first time. As the trip was a wonderful cross-cultural experience for the both the SEGA & AIS girls, we are pleased to say that another group of AIS students visited
Read MoreMatching Grant We are very excited to announce our third generous matching grant from USAID. This program provides assistance to schools, libraries, and medical centers outside the U.S. that serve as study and demonstration centers for American ideas and practices. This new grant of $275,000 will enable us to build a new volunteer house, purchase
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Graduates Ready to Start Their Own Businesses On Saturday, March 29th Sega and its partner, The Magadu Business and Entrepreneurship Training Institute (MEBTI), celebrated the completion of a ten week program in entrepreneurship for 16 of our recent graduates (Class of 2013). During the course each student learned business planning skills and prepared
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Polly Dolan, Co-Founder, Visits Nusura & Fundraising Team Friends’ Central School, a private school in Philadelphia where Sega student Nusura is attending, is in the midst of a fundraiser for Sega. The school is selling beautiful student-made note paper and sunflower seeds. Polly Dolan, Co-Founder of Sega & Nurturing Minds, made a special visit to
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Nusura Visits Various NM Supporters Above: Nusura at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church and Fairview High School Nusura, a Sega student currently on an exchange program at the Friends Central School in Philadelphia, has been busy speaking at local Nurturing Minds’ events and traveling to Colorado! Back in March Nusura gave a presentation about
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Sega Students Attend Summit and Develop Leadership Skills This weekend five Sega students and Career Counselor, Amina Komba, are attending the 1st Annual Girls’ Leadership Summit in Nairobi. Over the course of 5 days the girls will meet with female social entrepreneurs, tell their own stories, emphasize critical thinking, practice yoga and
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Creative Minds Organize Successful Fundraisers Within the last several weeks several young entrepreneurs held creative fundraisers and raised money on behalf of Sega. The first fundraiser was organized by the Teens for Sega, a recently established club at Newton North High School, outside of Boston. Founding members Leah Hahane, Rachel Cooke and Alex
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Following release of their exam results in March, Sega graduates recently joined a career workshop hosted by the Sega Girls School aimed at helping them to develop career action plans and outline their next academic steps. After introductions and an ice-breaker in which the young women were encouraged to “reach for the future and let
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Heidi Kane Visits Sega for the First Time and Shares Her Experience A few years ago we got involved with the Sega Girls School in Morogoro, Tanzania and sponsored two Sega students, Prisca and Asha. Two years later we sponsored a third student Happyness. We had supported sponsorship programs before, but the Sega Girls School Sponsorship
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Sharon Cromer and Charlotte Cerf Offer Congratualtions and Advice to Sega Graduates Last week Sharon Cromer, Director of USAID Tanzania, and Charlotte Cerf, USAID Tanzania’s Development Outreach and Communications Officer, visited Sega to congratulate the recent graduates on their fabulous performance on the National Exams. Sharon had visited Sega as the Guest of
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On March 8th, the Sega students joined with women across the World to celebrate International Women’s Day. Students in the Sega Girls School’s recently formed Peer Educator Club prepared a speech to raise awareness of International Women’s Day. Club member Vaselista Njozi presented the speech during the Sega Girls School morning assembly on March 8th.
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Sega Well Above Average on National Exam The results of the Form Four National Exams were recently released and the results for our Sega graduates were excellent! We are thrilled to say that 25 of our 27 Form Four students passed the exam, representing 93% of the class; compared to the nation’s average in which
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Building Projects Progress Quickly Thanks to a USAID grant and matching funds from generous supporters across the US, Sega is undergoing significant renovations and expansions. The school’s contractor and team are making rapid progress tackling these projects and expanding Sega’s infrastructure. Of the many construction projects, we are pleased to say that we
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A Valentine’s Day Fundraiser is a Great Success Featured above: Emmy Strongwater (16) and Emily Devery (17) , Co-Chairs of the Youths for Nurturing Minds Group; member Noah Llerandi, making the biscuits In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, the Youths for Nurturing Minds Group in Colorado organized a fundraiser. Their idea? Making, packaging and
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Sega’s Next Class in the Making Sega was pleased to welcome 32 “non-formal” students to its campus at the beginning of the new term in January. Non-formal students are vulnerable girls who hope to officially enroll at Sega but have not had consistent schooling growing up (often due to severe poverty or tough situations at
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Graduates Take Courses and Raise Money for Future Enterprises We are pleased to say many of the 2013 Sega graduates who finished their formal education in December are continuing their studies in Entrepreneurship. This past Saturday, fourteen of the graduates enrolled in a 10-week course at the Magadu Entrepreneurship & Business Training Institute
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Form Two National Exam Results are Announced This past week the Form Two National Exam scores were released and we are proud to say the results are very encouraging. First and foremost, all of our students passed – hooray! The exam scores rank Sega 79th out of 379 schools in its region; or
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