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Meet Susan Schneider – Peace Corps Volunteer at SEGA In honor of National Volunteer Week, April 23-29, we are celebrating one of SEGA’s volunteers – Susan Schneider! SEGA recently welcomed Susan Schneider, a Peace Corps volunteer, to the school’s team. Originally from Chicago, Susan has a background in teaching and corporate marketing. Throughout her life, […]
Read MoreRecord-high pass rates and SEGA’s career development internships are moving our 2016 graduates toward successful futures. We learned recently that 100% of SEGA’s 2016 graduates passed their national exams! This was a tremendous achievement for the students, and a first for SEGA as a school. Only about 70% of Tanzanian students pass these exams nationwide
Read MoreIn honor of International Day of the Woman on March 8th, we want to highlight a highly influential woman of our own – Hellen Nkalang’ango. Hellen is a SEGA board member and nurse/midwife, with a long and inspiring history of providing education and support to Morogoro’s underprivileged women and children. Hellen’s greatest passion is to
Read MoreThis Valentine’s Day, the SEGA Girls School is standing against gender-based violence through #1BillionRising’s Day of the Dance. This Valentine’s Day, SEGA students stood up to “break the chain” of gender-based violence! Continuing a Valentine’s Day tradition that SEGA began last year, today SEGA students performed One Billion Rising’s Break the Chain Dance. One Billion
Read MoreMother/Daughter Team Starts Nurturing Minds Chapter in Madison, WI Mother/daughter team Anne Pringle and Zoe Johnson recently started SEGA’s newest chapter in Madison, Wisconsin – MEGA (Madison Empowering Girls Advancement) for SEGA. Zoe and Anne first heard of SEGA through their Newton community several years ago. For Anne, a biologist who grew up overseas who wants
Read MoreToday’s post highlights a SEGA graduate who returned to teach new SEGA students! Lucy Richard is a Standard 6 and 7 teacher at SEGA. She is originally from the Mbeya region of Tanzania – about 11 hours’ drive southwest of the school. Lucy’s journey to becoming a SEGA teacher started with becoming a SEGA student! After
Read MoreReflecting on 2016 and Looking Ahead to 2017 Happy New Year! With the start of 2017 Nurturing Minds and SEGA are reflecting on the past year and looking forward to the upcoming year with high goals and hopes. 2016 saw continued growth, academic success and more entrepreneurial and leadership opportunities for the students. Looking at
Read MoreSEGA students attended two major leadership conferences this month in Kenya and Rwanda. by Hannah Wilson and Katie Fiorillo This December, SEGA was privileged to send students to the East African Girls Leadership Summit (EAGLS) in Kenya and the Ashoka Changemaker Conference in Rwanda. EAGLS Five SEGA students attended the third annual EAGLS in Nairobi
Read MoreNurturing Minds welcomed two SEGA students to the US this past month as part of an annual cultural exchange program. The two lucky students to visit the US were Elizabeth and Nadhiri, both Form 3 students. The SEGA faculty selected Elizabeth and Nadhiri for the exchange program due to their leadership potential, open-mindedness, maturity, confidence,
Read MoreAnother Milestone for SEGA and Our Students This past Saturday SEGA honored the graduation of its 4th class! Each graduation is a milestone for our students, their families and the school itself. Graduation is a time of celebrating incredible accomplishments as well as a time to reflect on just how far our students have come
Read MoreDevelopment Interns from Penn State Raise Funds for SEGA Student Scholarships By Sarah Kidder Only a few short months ago, I sat along side my fellow Penn State development interns, listening to a presentation by Tracey Dolan, co-founder of Nurturing Minds. Through this internship, we had the opportunity to meet with several non-profit leaders, including Tracey
Read MoreAgnes Irwin Student, Catherine de Lacoste-Azizi, shares her experience from the school’s recent Service Learning trip to SEGA Stiff and disoriented from a twelve-hour bus ride, we stood in front of the SEGA Girls School on our first day, glancing around at the sun drenched campus and trying to absorb the throng of new faces.
Read MoreTeachers Speak About Their Inspiration to Educate Girls SEGA’s teachers are incredibly important to fostering students’ growth and creating a positive school environment. Our teachers are the glue that holds the school together and they are the role models who inspire our students. Our teachers come from a variety of backgrounds but they all have
Read MoreIn light of a new ruling from the Tanzanian High Court on child marriage, SEGA’s Msichana Kisasa program is important to empower girls and change cultural attitudes. Nurturing Minds and SEGA celebrated a momentous decision by the Tanzanian High Court on July 8, when the court ruled to raise the legal marriage age for girls
Read MoreAstridah Katalyeba is SEGA’s new Deputy Director. This profile highlights her past work and achievements, her history with SEGA, and her new role at the school. Astridah Chisanga Katalyeba was born and raised in Zambia. She was the first born of 13 children! Her father was a primary school teacher. Astridah attended University of Zambia
Read MoreOpen Communication with Students’ Parents Fosters Supportive Environment SEGA prides itself in creating a supportive, nurturing environments for its students. One way that SEGA helps create this environment is to communicate frequently and openly with students’ parents through semi-annual Parents Meetings. These meetings are an important time for SEGA’s administration to connect with students’ parents.
Read MoreSEGA Graduate Accepted to African Leadership Academy Several weeks ago, SEGA received exciting news. Nusura, a 2015 SEGA graduate, was accepted into the African Leadership Academy! This is a huge milestone for Nusura and SEGA as the African Leadership Academy (ALA) is one of the most prestigious programs African students can attend. Based in Johannesburg,
Read MoreA Letter from Executive Director Laura DeDominicis On my recent week-long stay on the SEGA Girls School campus I was repeatedly amazed by the myriad ways our students showed leadership and determination. While visiting the new library I found a new Form I student, organizing her ideas and plans to create a monthly SEGA newsletter
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