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October 3, 2018

Local News Highlights GEC Efforts

By Anne Wadsworth

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

Dorm Fire: Update

By Anne Wadsworth

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

Launch a Leader is Launched!

By Anne Wadsworth

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

Getting Stronger by the Day

By Anne Wadsworth

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

Rich’s Family Foundation Highlights Partnership with GEC

By Anne Wadsworth

In December 2017, the Rich Products team wrote a blog highlighting its relationship with Girls Education Collaborative over the years.

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October 9, 2017

Meet Kitenga’s ICT and Biology Teacher: Mr. Nigo

By Anne Wadsworth

Hi everyone! Emily M Louis here, just wanting to give a proper introduction for this post. I have had the great pleasure of being able to get to know Mr. Claud Masanja Nigo via email the past few months. It sort of feels like having a penpal again! I have to tell you, that he…

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