African Women and Girls Pursuing Science-Related Fields
On #WomenScienceDay, ASEC shines a light on gender barriers in the science field and aims to support women and engage girls in STEM education.
Scholarship Program
2016 Bigwa Scholarship Recipients tell their stories
Read these short stories from 2016 Scholarship Program applicants from Bigwa Sisters School.
Dormitory expansion in Tanzania is slow but keeps girls in school
In so many places around the world, the challenge to lowering teen pregnancy rates is a complicated combination of social pressure, poverty and oppression of women. Tanzania suffers from all of those issues, but they’ve also found a startlingly simple solution: Build a dormitory. From Global Sisters Report
Franciscan Sisters of Chicago support Scholarship Program for 3rd consecutive year.
ASEC awarded $63,100 grant through Franciscan Sisters of Chicago. This is the third consecutive year the Franciscan Sisters have supported the Scholarship Program.
2015 Bigwa Scholarship Recipients and Site Visit Report
28 sisters were awarded an ASEC scholarship to study at Bigwa Sisters Secondary School. Professor Donald Miller & Sr. Jane Wakahiu visited Bigwa in January 2015.
2014 Bigwa School Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to the 2014 Bigwa Secondary School Scholarship Recipients
2013 Bigwa Scholarship Recipients
Four girls receive 2013 ASEC scholarship to attend the Bigwa School
2013 Bigwa School Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to the 2013 Bigwa Secondary School scholarship recipients.
ASEC awarded grant for Bigwa scholarships
ASEC was awarded a grant in May 2013 from the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago for Bigwa scholarships.
Friends from Marywood donate to Bigwa
Our friends from Marywood University have donated $1,160 to ASEC to support the education of girls to attend the Bigwa Secondary School in Morogoro, Tanzania.
2013 Grant for Bigwa School from the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago
ASEC has been awarded a $50,000 grant by the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago (FSC) for its Bigwa Secondary School Scholarship Program.
2012 Bigwa School Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to the 2012 Bigwa Secondary School scholarship recipients.