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Submitting guest blogs is open to Global Washington’s members of the Atlas level and above. We value a diversity of opinions on a broad range of subjects of interest to the global health and development community.
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Posted on August 20, 2024
Students gather outside Sukarya’s Education on Wheels bus, ready for their learning session.
In the sprawling slums on the edges of India’s bustling cities, millions of children are caught in an inescapable cycle of poverty. For many first-generation learners, the dream of education is far from reality. Amidst these challenging conditions, Sukarya’s “Education on Wheels” (EOW) program stands as a source of hope, showcasing the transformative power of education for marginalized communities.
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Posted on August 19, 2024
By Leonel Arguello, Director of Integrated School Feeding Programs, Global Communities
Guatemalan children taking part of the Global Communities UNIDOS program. Photo: Global Communities
As a Nicaraguan, I grew up in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual country with a large Indigenous population. English and French were the mandatory languages in public and private schools during my school years. Sadly, we were never taught our Indigenous languages, not even simple phrases like “good morning” or “thank you.”
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Posted on August 16, 2024
By Caroline Odera, Founder and Executive Director of Women in Sustainable Development (WISE), and Ferdinand Wafula, Founder and Executive Director of Bio Gardening Innovations (Western Kenya)
ELAF gathering 2024. Photo: WISE
We hosted this year’s East Africa Leaders Forum for current and past Pangea Giving grantees.
The two-day convention brought together organizations from East Africa for organizational running experience sharing, network building, challenges experienced and strategies on new ideas aimed at serving the communities better. The convention was culminated with visits to various WISE beneficiaries and projects implemented by one of the partners, Bio Gardening Innovation (BIOGI). The visits were interactive and we believe as partners we had a lot to take home in terms of knowledge and ideas to help us make our organizations sustainable emanating from the theme: Sustaining the gains as we serve our communities.
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