In Focus

Girls’ School benefits from FAWE Sierra Leone’s Successful Partnerships
Waterloo School Girls Thank Grace Episcopal Church The Waterloo Junior Secondary School for Girls is a very good example of a successful partnership. It started with a partnership between the Sierra Leone Chapter of the Forum for African Women…

Voices

Education Brings Hope and a Bright Future to Ugandan Girls
Caroline “I was lucky enough to have been born in a family with a mother who knew the importance of education. Beside the fact that we were very poor, she insisted that my father took us all nine girls to school. After my father’s death, everyone in the village told my mother that she should get us married because she could not afford paying for our school fees anymore. All hope vanished. I was desperate because I wanted to pursue my studies. Then I met with FAWE.” Says 4th year law student at Makerere University, Caroline Kanyago Kalogala.

Events

Mali National Day

22 September 2010

Our partners

Funding partners

FAWE gratefully acknowledges the following funding partners for their support to our work:

  • Danida
  • Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Henry R Kravis Prize in Leadership
  • Ireland Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Norad
  • Rockefeller Foundation
  • UNGEI
  • UNICEF-ESARO
  • UNICEF/UNDP Consortium (Somalia)
  • USAID
  • The World Bank

The following partners also extend financial support directly to our National Chapters at country level:

  • ACEM - Malawi
  • Children in Crisis UK - Liberia, Sierra Leone
  • Diakonia Sweden - Somalia
  • Donors’ consortium led by Netherlands - Zambia
  • Finnish Church Aid - Liberia, Sierra Leone
  • Grand Circle Foundation - Kenya
  • Irish Aid - Uganda
  • Liberia Education Trust (LET) - Liberia
  • Mvule Trust - Uganda
  • OSEO - Burkina Faso
  • OSISA - Namibia
  • OXFAM-Canada/GB/Novib - Ethiopia, Liberia, Uganda
  • Packard Foundation - Ethiopia
  • PASEC - Comoros
  • Plan WARO - Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Togo
  • SIDA - Ethiopia
  • UNHCR - Rwanda
  • UNICEF - Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
  • Unity - Uganda
  • USAID - Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda
  • USAID/AGSP/AED - Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Zanzibar
  • Winrock International - Mozambique, Zambia

Strategic partners

FAWE is privileged to collaborate with the following strategic partners in achieving our goals for the empowerment of African girls and women:

  • Addis Ababa University Institute for Gender Studies
  • The African Union
  • ADEA
  • ASHEWA
  • Association of African Universities
  • Clinton Global Initiative
  • CONFEMEN
  • Femmes Afrique Solidarité
  • Gender is My Agenda Campaign
  • Global Campaign for Education
  • IDAY
  • Kravis Leadership Institute
  • Kenyatta University
  • Plan International
  • SACMEQ
  • Busitema University
  • University of Cambridge Centre for Commonwealth Education
  • Université Cheikh Anta Diop Laboratoire Genre et Recherche Scientifique
  • University of Yaoundé
  • University of Witwatersrand

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