May 19, 2020
Meet Summer Volunteer, Samantha Maroshick
As I start my work at Girls Education Collaborative, I am really looking forward to understanding just what it takes to run a nonprofit successfully–especially in light of the changes that have needed to occur in the development sector due to COVID-19. I was really drawn to GEC because of its unique approach to improving…
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5K for Kitenga Photo Gallery
WOW! What a fun event! Check out these photos from our virtual 5K for Kitenga!
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April 16, 2020
Is Covid-19 Coming to Africa? Yes
The simple answer is ‘yes’. The more complex answer is really a question: ‘When Covid-19 comes to Africa, what will be the effect?’. To paint a broad brush for the whole of the continent is to be careless. To make assumptions based on western paradigms, foolish. While this is a story still unfolding, the following…
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April 16, 2020
“a PIVOT is a change in strategy, not a change in mission”
GEC’s Covid-19 Response Plan Is Covid-19 coming to Africa? Probably. Learn more Here Prologue: On March 17, 2020, the government of Tanzania mandated all Tanzanian schools to close immediately and all students to return home if attending residential schools. For GEC, this means that our sole program partner was shuttered for an unknown duration. As…
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April 15, 2020
5K for Kitenga Tool Kit
Welcome to the 5K for Kitenga Tool Kit! All registered individuals or teams will run (walk, skip, hop, jump…) in honor of an actual Kitenga Girls Secondary School student and will pledge to raise (at least) $100 to support GEC’s mission of creating a gender equal world where all girls are given the opportunity to…
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March 25, 2020
Together, we can get through this
Friends, You have transformed lives by building and opening the Kitenga Girls Secondary School. In its young life, the school is already facing its second existential crisis, the first being the dorm fire. Together, we made it through the first crisis and ended up stronger and better. Together, we can do it again. This time,…
Read MoreMarch 19, 2020
GEC Covid-19 Update: Although We Are Separated, Lets Stay Connected
Dear GEC Community, I first want to thank you for your outpouring of support over the past several days. We are witnessing and feeling the enormous global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and are all in the midst of dealing with this crisis personally. I cannot tell you how much I’ve appreciated the show of…
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February 13, 2020
Catalyzing Human Capital
Catalyzing Human Capital First, the setting. I write this from the veranda at Betsy’s House, in Kitenga, Tanzania—a special place that has become like a second home to me. Three students just stopped by to welcome me back and get me caught up on the news. Sister Berna walks by, with a batch of kittens…
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February 13, 2020
Two. Two. One.
Two. Two. One. For the 2nd year in a row, all of Form Two students at the Kitenga Secondary School for Girls scored in Division One on their National Exams! Considering that less than 20% of Tanzanian girls graduate from secondary school, this is a notable measure of success for this school, for these students….
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Meet the Team: New Operations and Partnership Manager!
Patricia is a book lover, hiker, adventurer, and traveler. She studied business administration at SUNY Buffalo and public administration at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. As a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Patricia has experience working in economic development and girls’ education. During her 27 months in Cameroon, she focused her efforts on teaching fundamental…
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