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November 19, 2018
SAVE THE DATE! November 27, 2018 Help us reach our $5,000 #GivingTuesday goal! Why Support GEC on #GivingTuesday? The GEC model is working! We are seeing the results and they are remarkable. The Kitenga School for Girls is growing and the girls are thriving. Next school year (starting January 2019) our partners, the Immaculate Heart…
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October 3, 2018
WKBW reporter Rebecca Thornburg stopped by the GEC offices to chat with our executive director, Anne Wadsworth, about how a committed group of individuals from Buffalo is helping ensure more girls have access to a safe, high-quality education half a world away. Watch the story.
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September 25, 2018
As I write this, it is just over five weeks since a devastating fire ripped through the girls’ dormitory at the Kitenga School for Girls. If you’re hearing this news for the first time after your summer holiday – it’s true. A fire broke out at night, everyone escaped unharmed, but the damage was extensive…
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September 25, 2018
The transition from sub-par government schools taught in Swahili to the Kitenga Secondary School for Girls (KSSG) where classes are taught in English can be daunting for students. Together, leaders at GEC and the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa developed a pilot program that is designed to help students get up to speed before the…
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December 13, 2017
About 43 weeks over the course of 76 months (that’s six years plus change) – that’s the number of days I have spent in Tanzania forming a partnership and building a remarkable school with the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa. About 85% of those days were spent chiseling a castle from a rock, shaping a…
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December 5, 2017
In December 2017, the Rich Products team wrote a blog highlighting its relationship with Girls Education Collaborative over the years.
Read MoreTogether, we can show the world that there’s nothing a girl can’t do.