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Recently, Nurturing Minds received the letter below from SEGA graduate Elina. In her letter, she expressed her thanks for being able to visit the U.S., along with fellow SEGA graduate Khadija, as part of this year’s Study Abroad Program. With Elina’s permission, we are excited to share her experience - in her own words - with the broader NM and SEGA community.
Read MoreAfter two and a half years away I was finally able to get back to SEGA where so much has changed and yet in so many ways things have also remained the same. Nurturing Minds and SEGA co-founder, Polly Dolan, joined me along with several volunteers, including two young women who led clubs supporting SEGA while in high school and my niece!
Read MoreIn honor of Menstrual Hygiene Day - a global holiday celebrated annually on May 28th which helps break the silence, raise awareness and changes negative social norms around menstrual health and hygiene - we are excited to share with you this blog which has been written by SEGA’s Form 3 student Magreth. Magreth has an interest in being a broadcast journalist when she is older and has written this blog on a topic that is important to her.
Read MoreSome people become teachers by obtaining education degrees. Others become teachers by just opening their hearts to enrich the lives of others. If you fall into either category AND want to add a life-changing, cultural experience to that accomplishment, then we invite you to join us for the return of our in-person, two-week long English Fluency Program this fall at the SEGA Girls’ School in Tanzania.
Read MoreMeet Clementina Adam Mwambene, SEGA’s Program Coordinator for its Modern Girl Community Outreach program, also called Msichana wa Kisasa. She joined SEGA in June 2016 and has helped the Modern Girl program expand substantially during the past six years. She says, “I think the platform that SEGA provides in championing girls’ education and empowerment, whether in school or in the community where I work, is amazing. Through SEGA I have seen girls (mentees) and mentors become young women of substance.”
Read MoreAt this point, most of us are closely monitoring COVID-19 vaccination rates in our areas of the world. During the early stages of the pandemic, many eyes were fixed on continental Africa's response. Almost 2 years after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) finds that the continent can control the pandemic in 2022, if the current vaccination trend continues.
Blog written by Myranda James - Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management graduate student, and Nurturing Minds and SEGA Development and Communications Intern (2021/22)
Read MoreThis International Women’s Day, we are excited to share with you the blog post below which has been written by SEGA’s Form 3 student Magreth. Magreth has an interest in being a broadcast journalist when she is older and has written this blog on a topic that is important to her - gender discrimination in Tanzania.
Read MoreSEGA students continue to excel! The 2021 National Exam results, NECTA, were recently announced and they exceeded the previous year’s outstanding results! The SEGA students follow the Tanzanian national curriculum, and that requires students in Forms 2 and 4 taking national exams in order to advance to the next level. Scores are organized into four categories, with Division One being the one with the highest scores and Division Four the lowest scores.
Read MoreSince 2016, The Modern Girl Community Outreach Program has empowered vulnerable Tanzanian girls with knowledge about their bodies and their rights, along with teaching practical, income-generating skills.
Read MoreWe are excited for you to get to know SEGA’s Headmistress Elly Sarakikya! Below is an interview between Elly and Nurturing Minds’ Board Member Susan Schneider, who spent two years teaching English at SEGA under Elly’s guidance as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Read MoreNurturing Minds volunteers and SEGA facilitators partnered together to launch an exciting new volunteer initiative for the SEGA pre-form students this past November. The English Fluency Program Virtual Teaching Sessions commenced with excitement at being able to have all the participants connect across three different countries! The inaugural event partnered Nurturing Minds volunteers with pre-form students and SEGA staff via thirty-minute zoom teaching sessions.
Read MoreSEGA’s much anticipated, ninth graduation took place on Saturday, September 25th. With a total of 58 students in the Form Four class, a total of 294 students have now graduated from SEGA since its first graduating class in 2013. It was a fabulous, lively celebration, filled with entertaining activities by the students that included a fashion show, songs and dances.
Read MoreThe annual Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program was held in July and was virtual this year because of COVID precautions. It is a free, intensive, academic and enrichment program for African secondary school students who plan to continue into tertiary education and hope to make meaningful impacts as young leaders and engaged citizens.
This year, three SEGA graduates and one current SEGA student were accepted to YYAS. We had a chance to talk to Elina about her experience at SEGA and then at YYAS. Thank you, Elina, for sharing your story with us!
Read MoreAmplify is a collective of community-driven organizations collaborating to create a community-based alternative to traditional development scale. Amplify partners collaborate to share best practices, develop community driven metrics and create large scale joint advocacy campaigns in order to elevate the unparalleled impact that community-driven organizations have in transforming the lives of adolescent girls.
Read MoreSEGA’s students work hard for excellent grades. They know they can only complete and graduate high school if they do well. But, what gives them almost as much (if not more) joy than getting good grades? Seeing Rhona Deusdery Mtega with letters for them from their sponsors!
Read MoreFor students still perfecting their English, en·tre·pre·neur·ship is a big, huge word! But, they learn quickly to pronounce it and understand its meaning because of the critical skills they learn in the program. For two weeks, every June after exams are completed, Form III students learn not only the theory behind profit-making programs, but also practical skills that they can take with them when they leave SEGA. They are divided into three groups and rotate through three programs: School Shop, Poultry and Sewing.
Read MoreBeing a mother or a maternal figure is often seen as the hardest job in the world. The selfless acts and love they provide are the cornerstones of many individuals, families, communities, and societies. As we celebrate mothers and maternal figures this Mother’s Day, we are excited to highlight an extraordinary SEGA mother who is changing the lives of young mothers in Tanzania. Jackie Leonard Bombama’s story is one of incredible strength, perseverance, and love.
Read MoreAs we celebrate International Mother Earth Day, adopted by the UN in 2009, we wanted to call attention to how climate change adversely and disproportionately impacts women and girls, and to elevate that women are also critical drivers of climate solutions and positive change (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). Educating girls is ranked as an effective climate solution, more effective than electric cars, various types of solar, offshore wind, wave and tidal power according to Resilience.org and Drawdown.org.
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