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…
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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…
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04 May 20

Generosity Makes the World Go Round!

Since the COVID19 crisis began to unfold in Kenya, and around the globe, one of the brightest spots has been seeing communities come together, seeing organisations collaborate in response, and seeing individuals reach out to others with care and kindness.  All of this brings light and hope in dark times.…
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17 Apr 20

Hope in the Chaos

Earlier this week I had the privilege of participating in a Twitter Chat as part of the preparations for the ‘Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined’ virtual conference, co-hosted by WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) and Salzburg Global, at which I was also a presenter. As populations across the globe come…
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15 Apr 20

Community Champions: Hope in a Time of Crisis

Following our initial update on Dignitas’ response to COVID19, our team got straight to work on designing a comprehensive program that would respond to the urgent needs we have seen emerging from school closures. The Challenge As you probably know, many of Dignitas’ 300 school partnerships are in Nairobi’s urban…
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Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders – One Girl at a Time

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://dignitasproject.org/assets/uploads/2020/04/Landing-Page.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” /][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] The Dottie Scholarship Program provides young women from marginalized communities the opportunity to attend a high-quality secondary school and develop as leaders and role models in…
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