Tanzania

2016 Bigwa Scholarship Recipients tell their stories

Wed, Nov 2, 2016

Read these short stories from 2016 Scholarship Program applicants from Bigwa Sisters School.

Praying for Tanzania Earthquake survivors as they face task of rebuilding

Mon, Sep 12, 2016

Join us to continue praying for the people of Bukoba, Tanzania as they recuperate from the a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck on Saturday evening.

Dormitory expansion in Tanzania is slow but keeps girls in school

Tue, Mar 29, 2016

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

Sharing voices of sisters in Tanzania and Kenya

Thu, Jan 28, 2016

Global Sisters Report brings you voices from sisters in Kenya and Tanzania.

A Life-Changing Experience – ASEC’s Service Learning Program

Fri, Dec 11, 2015

Marywood student Nadine Burton reflects on her experience in the service learning program by describing the experience as “life-changing.”

Franciscan Sisters of Chicago support Scholarship Program for 3rd consecutive year.

Mon, Dec 7, 2015

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

Thu, Mar 12, 2015

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.

HESA is recruiting sisters for onsite programs to begin in Summer

Tue, Mar 10, 2015

HESA is currently recruiting sisters to enroll in onsite programs at Saint Augustine University College (SAUT), Mwanza, Tanzania; Kisubi Brothers University College, Kisubi, Uganda; and Chemchemi Ya Uzima Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.