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04 Nov 20

Celebrate with us! Dignitas wins a 2020 WISE Award!

We are very excited to announce that Dignitas has been awarded a 2020 WISE Award for our Stawisha Instructional Leadership Institute. Six innovative projects addressing global educational challenges have been honored from 625 applications with the announcement of the 2020 WISE Awards winners. The WISE Awards, created by the World Innovation Summit…

30 Oct 20

Join our Learning and Evaluation Team!

Dignitas has an exciting year ahead in 2021, with further growth and development plans. 2020 was our most challenging year yet, but we’ve proven Dignitas’ vision to be critical, and work meaningful even in the most challenging of circumstances. It is our desire to build on this in 2021 by…

21 Oct 20

Dignitas is hiring! Come, join our award-winning team!

Dignitas has an exciting year ahead in 2021, with further growth and development plans. 2020 was our most challenging year yet, but we’ve proven Dignitas’ vision to be critical, and work meaningful even in the most challenging of circumstances. It is our desire to build on this in 2021 by…

01 Sep 20

My Story, My Voice, My Mission: A Leadership Journey

Dignitas is always looking for professional development opportunities for our amazing team members. We were so pleased when our Programs Director Roselynn, was selected as one of Acumen‘s East African fellows for 2020. She shares here some of her reflections on her journey so far. As part of Acumen EA Fellowship…

28 Aug 20

Making Progress for Children in Crisis: 10,773 Children Impacted!

School Leaders are pillars of our communities, not just leading schools, but community leaders in their own right. Since school closed in March 2020, Dignitas has been working to equip, empower and support our School Leaders as new Leaders of Learning for this current global crisis. Equipping and supporting school…

25 Aug 20

School Leadership in a Time of Crisis

If we’ve ever doubted the place of great leadership, the current global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated its importance. This is no different for educational institutions. Whether school based or not, the need for educational leadership has been a painful lack for many across the world. As schools…

25 Jun 20

Coaching Journey: A Successful Walk With my Teachers

Coaching is a core element of Dignitas school partnerships, one we often refer to as a our ‘secret sauce’. With COVID-19, we’re coaching remotely, but here’s a flashback from Dignitas Leadership Coach Justus, highlighting the impact of walking the coaching journey with one of his assigned school teams. As we…

16 Jun 20

Stawisha Graduation: A Virtual Celebration!

Until the advent of COVID-19, which brought most countries’ economies, work life and schooling to an abrupt stop, we didn’t imagine that we could conduct an actual virtual graduation. Virtual learning? Yes. Thousands if not millions of students are already using virtual spaces to learn. However, virtual graduation had not crossed…

09 Jun 20

Meet the young world-changers behind ‘Music Beats COVID’

If you follow Dignitas on social media, you may have seen us sharing the ‘Music Beats COVID’ campaign. This fantastic campaign was designed and executed by two of our youngest supporters, Rhea and Neha, along with their friend Reeyan. Their generosity and compassion have simply blown us away. We wanted…

01 Jun 20

Keeping 12,000 Children from Marginalized Communities Safe and Learning!

Since the COVID-19 crisis hit Kenya mid-March, the Dignitas team have been extremely busy. You may have already read our post highlighting the beginning of our plans, and this update as we began to think about how best we could support children in marginalized communities whilst schools are closed. As…