African Sisters Education Collaborative
Mr. Steven M. Hilton, President & CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, led a delegation to Nairobi Kenya to visit with Catholic Sisters participants of the Sisters Leadership Development Initiative (SLDI) program.
In August 2012, sisters from East Africa – Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – had the opportunity to create and display posters reflecting the knowledge and skills that they gained by participating in the SLDI program.
Nairobi, Kenya: Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Marywood University and CUEA launching a partnership that will promote the Higher Education for Sisters in Africa (HESA) program.
Finance trainings held in Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zambia
By the end of the three-year program 267 Sisters from Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Nigeria completed the program and received a certificate of completion at the graduation ceremonies.
Administrative training in Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zambia
As a result of her life-changing experience visiting the Bigwa Secondary School, one Service Learning student donated $1,000 to purchase a cow so that the students at the Bigwa School could benefit.
Funding was generously provided by the GHR Foundation out of Minneapolis, MN. A total of $458,222 in funding for the Bigwa Secondary School was was generously provided by the GHR Foundation to build labs for physics, chemistry, and biology and to upgrade science and math curriculum.
Reflections of the beginnings of ASEC
Photos from the 2010 Nigeria Web Design class.
In May-June 2010 eleven students and three mentors from Chestnut Hill College, Rosemont College and Marywood University traveled to Morogoro, Tanzania to participate in a service opportunity at the Bigwa Sisters Secondary School.
The goal of this project is to raise the classification of Bigwa Secondary School in Morogoro, Tanzania, from the “O” (ordinary) to the “A” (level). This will enable the sister graduates to apply for higher education.
