Supporting Sisters in South Sudan with Basic Technology Workshop
Earlier this year, ASEC offered a Basic Technology workshop in South Sudan for the first time, with 13 sisters in attendance.
ASEC News & Reflections
ASEC is serving Catholic Sisters in 11 African countries, providing access to educational opportunities. There is much to celebrate about the work of ASEC and the impact on Sisters benefiting from our programs.
SLDI Presents Phase III Evaluation Report
After nearly ten years in existence, the program has achieved many successes, including the over $10 million secured by SLDI alumnae and their mentees for urgently needed projects.
Reflecting on SLDI’s Phase III Evaluation
SLDI Program Evaluator, Ms. Jennifer Mudge, reflects on the outcomes of the SLDI Program Phase III which ended in April 2015.
ASEC awarded grant through the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation provides a grant to expand ASEC’s Higher Education for Sisters in Africa (HESA) program.
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
SLDI Alumni Workshop in Uganda
In this article, Sr. Mary Germina Keneema, MSMMC, ASEC Program Coordinator in Uganda, shares an update from the recent SLDI workshop in Kampala.
Visit to Medical Missionaries of Mary Clinic
ASEC staff visits the Medical Missionaries of Mary Clinic in Abuja, Nigeria to meet with an alumna who raised funds for live-saving cervical cancer screen equipment.
Staff spotlight: Sister Kathryn Miller’s work in Africa continues to inspire
Kathryn Miller, SSJ, Ph.D., assistant to the president for administration and special projects, made her third trip to Africa in December. From Chestnut Hill College’s e-newsletter, Connections.
Why Support Education in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Only 6% percent of women participate in higher education in Sub Saharan Africa (as students, faculty or administrators).
Sharing voices of sisters in Tanzania and Kenya
Global Sisters Report brings you voices from sisters in Kenya and Tanzania.
SLDI Program Enters Phase IV
SLDI will enter its fourth phase in 2016 with awarded $8.5 million grant from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
to implement Phase IV of the SLDI through February 2019
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SLDI Graduations, End of Phase III
From August – December, 2015, SLDI participants will celebrate their graduation from the SLDI Program.