A2Empowerment, a nonprofit company that grew out of Peace Corps Service, has grown to award more than 2,000 high school scholarships for young women in Cameroon who have dropped out of school or are at high risk of dropping out. These roots allow the organization to transition to have alumni lead their way into the future.
“In 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson initiated the celebration of Negro History Week, which corresponded with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, this celebration was expanded to include the entire month of February, and today Black History Month garners support throughout the country as people of all ethnic and social backgrounds discuss the black experience. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, ASALH, views the promotion of Black History Month as one of the most important components of advancing Dr.Woodson’s legacy.” Marvin DeLaney, President, ASALH.
Boston-registered international NGO, Limitless Horizons Ixil recently won the 2021 UNESCO Literacy Prize. It is one of six organizations to receive the award in honor of its innovative approach to literacy programming during COVID-19 in the rural village of Chajul, Guatemala, home to the Maya Ixil people.
RefugePoint and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation demonstrate how collaboration between civil society and philanthropy can conceptualize and develop innovative models to shift from short-term aid to long-term resilience.
Over a year into the Covid-19 pandemic with compounding stress, workplaces have continued to be sites in which employees cannot show up as their full selves. Work is often a place where people are retraumatized and where new traumatic experiences take place.
The humanitarian sector, particularly the field of global health, is rich with data. But how much of that big data is actually helping us do better?
Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II, a mission of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, first opened its doors to homeless children in 1985, but was officially founded the following March of 1986. Currently, 72 children call Casa Hogar their home, where they are given faith, family, and a chance at the promising future they deserve. Using the Family Program based on the famous Boys Town methods, Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II has become a leader in the treatment and care for children who come from poverty-stricken and high-risk backgrounds in Peru. Over the years, the organization has provided many children with a safe, caring, loving environment where they gain the confidence to learn skills, develop responsibility, and become productive citizens within their community.
SEGA’s English Fluency program was started in 2015 to help SEGA’s youngest students quickly learn to speak and understand English using a stress-free method of drama, games, music, and activities. This year, due to COVID-19, the program continued virtually to ensure that incoming students have confidence in speaking and understanding English so that they can be successful in secondary school.
How many students worldwide will ever have an opportunity to be involved in a cultural exchange program? How many will ever have the chance to travel abroad or even host a guest from abroad in their home? These are the driving questions behind the longevity of virtual exchange. COVID-19 has certainly accelerated the evolution of this medium of virtual, global connection! But does it “have legs?” For those of us feverishly pivoting to this new reality, writing grants, and developing programs, is this stop-gap or an investment in the future?
Citizenship deprivation and statelessness underlie many critical issues facing the Middle East today. The Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies (BCARS) and its extensive, transnational network examine the ways citizenship status impacts access to rights and services in the region through collaborative research.