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Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO) Teaches Valuable Business Lessons Earlier this week SEGA welcomed volunteers from Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO) to campus. Over the course of the next 9 days SIDO will teach SEGA’s Business Club members valuable ways to make a number of different products in order to diversify their sellable goods. The
Read MoreStudents Learn More about Protecting Elephants Earlier this month twenty six students from SEGA’s Anti-Ivory Club visited Ruaha National Park. Ruaha is Tanzania’s largest national park and is home to nearly 8,000-10,000 elephants, the highest concentration of elephants in eastern Africa. The goal of the trip was to see elephants in their natural habitat and
Read MoreStudents Learn Skills through Real Work Environments SEGA continues to help and support our students even after graduation. One of the ways we do this is by offering internships to a select number of graduates. Currently seven students from the Class of 2014 are engaged in internships. Two students have internships at SEGA. One graduate
Read MoreThe NAFAKA Project Teaches Important Farming Skills On Tuesday this week, a representative from USAID came to SEGA to continue the NAFAKA Project. The NAFAKA Project is a USAID program designed to “improve smallholder farmer productivity and profitability with maize and rice… and sustainably reduce poverty and food insecurity by increasing incomes for smallholder farmers.” The
Read MoreStudents and Supporters Connect Online Last weekend in honor of International Women’s Day, we held the first ever Google Hangout with SEGA students and Nurturing Minds’ supporters. For those unfamiliar with Google Hangout, it is similar to a Skype call — allowing many people to interact over a video call. The call focused on SEGA’s poultry
Read MoreGirls Learn the Keys to Beginning a Career Last weekend SEGA held a Career Seminar for students in Forms 3 & 4. The goal of the seminar was to introduce the girls to various careers and convey the importance of grades, studying, and planning to achieve success. While this may sound like a rather dry subject, even
Read MoreA Fundraiser to Stop Elephant Poaching & Empower SEGA’s Anti-Ivory Club SEGA’s Anti-Ivory Club is taking their activism to a new level with the help of JulietteSpeaks, an organization committed to saving elephants and developing youth leaders. Beginning on February 1, 2015 JulietteSpeaks launched a fundraiser to raise money for SEGA’s Anti-Ivory Club so that the club can further
Read MoreThe New Semester Begins with Great News The roaring cheer was part joy and part relief. Form III students had been waiting months to receive their National Examinations of Tanzania (NECTA) results from the previous year. They received the scores and learned that for a third consecutive year, 100% of the Form III’s passed their Form
Read MoreSEGA Graduates Adjusting Well at their New Schools Recently Pauline, Life Skills Coordinator/SEGA Teacher and Carolyn, Art & Environment Volunteer, paid visits to SEGA’s 2013 graduates. Pauline and Carolyn traveled all over Tanzania to check-in on the girls at the various schools and programs that they are now attending. During these visits Pauline and Carolyn
Read MoreA Graduation, A Celebration, A Success Last week SEGA held a graduation ceremony and celebration for its 2014 Graduates – the school’s second ever graduating class. It was an incredibly joyous occasion, celebrating the accomplishments of SEGA’s newest graduates and the progress that the school has made in the past year. For those of you
Read MoreSoccer, Gardening, New Students, Oh my! Friday afternoon Student v. Staff soccer games are the new highlight of everyone’s week! After classes on Fridays, all staff and students head to the soccer field – adrenaline and enthusiasm runs high. The girls LOVE the games and even the teachers are quite competitive. These soccer games have
Read MoreStudents Learn about the Latest Science in Land Mine Detection Last week Form Three students went on a very unique field trip. Pauline, Sega’s counselor and life skills teacher, organized a trip to visit APOPO, a training facility in Morogoro for rats (yes, rats!) where they learn to detect land mines and Tuberculosis. While this
Read MoreA Fun and Informative Field Trip This past weekend 28 Form Four students traveled to Dodoma for an informational field trip. During the course of the weekend the girls attended Dodoma’s Nane Nane fair and visited the Prime Minister’s pavilion where there were many informational kiosks about various national programs having to do education,
Read MoreA New Entrepreneurial Opportunity for Students The new canteen is almost ready for business! Built with funds from Fundacion Paraguaya, with support from the Mastercard foundation, the canteen will provide another opportunity for students to learn business skills and earn money for the school. Currently the Business Club is working with a specified budget to
Read MoreSEGA Students Teach Anti-Ivory Education Yesterday thirty-two students from SEGA’s Anti-Ivory Club took a field trip to the Yespa Secondary School in the Kihonda village of Morogoro to teach the Yespa students about saving elephants and stopping the ivory trade. The girls shared their knowledge about poaching and anti-ivory practices through song, interactive learning and discussion
Read MoreGreat Article on SEGA and Its Supporters Haverford School, a well respected all-boys school in the suburbs of Philadelphia, recently highlighted one of its alums (also one of our board members) Clarke Blynn, in its quarterly publication, The Haverford School Today. The article gives a great overview of SEGA’s history, accomplishments to date and future goals. We
Read MoreA 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
Read MoreGirls 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
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