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BALKHIS STORY
Posted on 10/09/2011 at 05:45PM
Being a girl in a developing country is rarely easy. Poverty often has a more destructive effect on girls, who are more easily excluded from education and therefore from remunerating activities. In some areas, cultural prejudices against girls minimise their chances to access a good education and escape poverty.
Balkhis
It takes the extraordinary willpower of a girl like Balkhis, and a little help from Aiducation, to break the cycle of poverty and start building future for girls in local communities.
Tags: Impact, AiduFellows
AIDUCATION BIKE RIDE - RAISING MORE THAN 2 SCHOLARSHIPS
Posted on 08/08/2011 at 05:45PM
As part of a challenge during his MBA in Cambridge, UK, Patrick has gathered some friends for an incredible bike trip, all the way from Cambridge to Paris, and raised more than two scholarships on Justgiving. He tells us about his adventure:
Lisa and Timo can now both attend secondary school thanks to the bike challenge.
“Early on in our MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School, some of us discovered that there had been a ride from Cambridge to Paris organised by the previous cohort, to attend the MBA Tournament (MBAT) held at HEC in Paris during our final semester on the MBA. I contacted the guys from last year’s ride to get some more information about it and they proved most helpful with their advice and information, not least of which was that they had raised money for Aiducation with their ride. It was talked about more and more over the first semester and by the time MBAT was approaching there was a sizable group of us keen to make the trip, all of us keen to keep a great tradition and support for a great cause going.
Patrick’s team in action
Tags: Impact, uk, AiduFellows
New cooperation with Shining Hope’s Kibera School for Girls. Now you can help!
Posted on 01/01/2011 at 08:47AM
We’re very proud to announce that we have just signed a new cooperation with the Kibera Primary School for Girls, run by Shining Hope for Communities in Nairobi. Aiducation will offer scholarships for the secondary education of 15 girls each year, just after they graduate from Kibera Primary School, and take them one step closer to the fulfillment of their dreams.
We are very proud to announce that we have just signed a new cooperation with the Kibera Primary School for Girls, run by Shining Hope for Communities in Nairobi. Aiducation will offer scholarships for the secondary education of 15 girls each year, just after they graduate from Kibera Primary School, and take them one step closer to the fulfillment of their dreams. Set in the centre of Kenya’s biggest slum, the Kibera School for Girls opened in 2009 as the first and only tuition-free school for girls in the area. More than 1.5 million people live in the Kibera slum in the heart of Nairobi. No public services such as public schools are available to residents. Access to clean water and electricity is almost non-existent; HIV rates are some of the highest in the world; a fifth of all children die before the age of five; and roughly 66% of young women routinely trade sex for food.
Tags: Cooperation, Kenya, AiduFellows, impact