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Two African Women Changemakers contribute to the Global Conversation at Obama Foundation Summit
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 28, 2019 Contact: Jennifer Haist: jmontague@asanteafrica.org Two African Women Changemakers contribute to the Global Conversation at Obama Foundation Summit – October 28,29, 2019 in Chicago , ILOakland, CA --- Two young...
UNSCRIPTED AND UNSTOPPABLE
In honor of International Day of the Girl Child, Asante Africa Foundation board member and longtime scholarship sponsor, Monica Hahn reflects of the impact that her donations have had on two girls. Despite the setbacks faced by both girls, Monica focuses on their...
Simon Kinyanjui, Asante Africa Alumni and Staff Selected For Young African Leadership Institute
The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) was launched by President Barack Obama as an effort to invest in the next generation of African leaders. But the question remains; who will empower and lead these young Africans? Who will shape the future of business and...
Teach to the Students, Not to the Test
I have been teaching biology in a secondary school in rural Tanzania for the past two years. Today, I took a break from teaching one of my freshman classes about first aid to review the alphabet (using first aid vocabulary). This is not the first time I have done...
International Youth Day 2019 – Making Strides in Uganda
International Youth Day (IYD) was established by the United Nations in 1999 and highlights the importance and value of youth around the globe, focusing on the roles they place in modern society. Currently, the population of youth between the ages of 10 and 24 is 1.8...
Leading By Example
Sudi Salum Musa is a 22-year old from Kaliua town in the Tabora district in Tanzania. He is ambitious, passionate about volunteering and working with youth, and loves to apply his skills whenever possible. Sudi attended Asante Africa’s Leadership and Entrepreneurship...
Asante Africa Partners with S4YE (Solutions for Youth Employment)
We are pleased to announce that Asante Africa Foundation has been selected to be among the thirty-two new projects from across the world joining the existing partners in the S4YE (Solutions For Youth Employment) impact portfolio and the external Community of Practice...
The Introducer – Game Changer: Erna Grasz
Erna Grasz is Educating East African Youth to Thrive in a Global Economy Erna Grasz was raised by an immigrant father and an orphaned mother in the deep south of Mississippi and Texas. She developed a passion for education at a young age through her teachers and Girl...
Empowering Youth for Positive Change: World Youth Skills Day 2019
World Youth Skills Day was created in 2014 by the United Nations to both highlight and bring awareness to the importance of global access to education by young people as they begin entering the workplace. With the working-age population of Sub-Saharan Africa expected...
EVALINE: DREAMING BIG, STARTING SMALL
In Tanzania, where the majority of economic activity is through small, cash only businesses, entrepreneurship skills can be essential to success. Even individuals with salaried jobs often supplement their income with a small side business. Despite this, there are very...