English Access Microscholarship Program - Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

24/02/2019

English Language Fellows from Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania gave a Black History Month presentation to Access students on the blues and jazz—the students learned the Charleston and to flap. The ELF’s also lead a round table discussion with Access teachers on Communicative Language Teaching and gave a suitcase of lesson training to Access teachers, Bahir Dar University professors, and local NGO Pink Girl teachers.

04/02/2019

Bahir Dar Community. We are looking for community service / volunteer opportunities for our Access students. Please contact us if you have any ideas. Thanks!

23/01/2019

Dr. Manendante in action.

30/10/2018

13/10/2018

International Day of the Girl Celebration.

11/10/2018

Continue to rise, girls! Your untapped power is infinite.

11/10/2018

It’s that simple. Making sure that girls around the world can go to school helps them and their families, of course, but it also benefits the entire planet.

11/10/2018

There are 1.1 billion girls in the world, and according to the United Nations, most of them face disadvantage and discrimination on a daily basis. Today on the International Day of the Girl Child, we’d like to show our unquestioning support of all the work being done across the globe to ensure that girls someday in the future get the same rights and opportunities as boys.

11/10/2018

Betelhem Dessie leads a number of nationwide programs run by iCog, the Ethiopian artificial intelligence lab involved in developing Sophia the robot.

11/10/2018

When adolescent girls receive an education, amazing things start to happen: Poverty goes down.
Economies grow. Families get stronger. Babies are born healthier. And the world, by all accounts,
gets better.

That’s why today on the International , Girl Rising is proud to stand with Michelle Obama to celebrate the launch of the Global Girls Alliance, a new program in support of adolescent girls’ education. Learn more at GlobalGirlsAlliance.org—because the future of our world is only as bright as our girls.

06/07/2018

And then we took 82 students, 7 teachers, some aides, and assorted others on a boat to visit monasteries. Ta da! Summer Camp ends . . .