Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Featured Grantee: Flying Kites and Impact Network
Guest Speakers:
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT
How to Join: Click here to join the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS meeting.
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Featured Grantee: MindLeaps and Moving the GoalPosts Kilifi
Guest Speakers:
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
Book: Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
Speaker: Pashtana Durrani (author)
Summary: Inspired by generations of her family’s unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan’s girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, where girls are often married off before reaching their teenage years and prohibited from leaving their homes, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous.
Pashtana was raised in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan where her father, a tribal leader, founded a community school for girls within their home. Fueled by his insistence that despite being a girl, she mattered and deserved an education, Pashtana was sixteen when, against impossible odds, she was granted a path out of the refugee camp: admittance to a preparatory program at Oxford. Unthinkably and to her parents’ horror, she chose a different path. She chose Afghanistan.
Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the hands of girls in remote areas of the country, training teachers in digital literacy. Her commitment to education has made her a target of the Taliban. Still, she continues to fight for women’s education and autonomy in Afghanistan and beyond.
We will also be holding a separate online event for those interested in a deeper discussion about the book on September 19 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. (See below)
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT
How to Join: Click here to join the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS meeting.
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
We will be holding a separate online event for those interested in a deeper discussion about the book, Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women by Pashtana Durrani. This will be moderated by Vicky Bush-Joseph, Board Vice Chair.
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Featured Grantee: She’s the First
Guest Speakers: Kayla Pate, Development Manager
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
On this trip, you will visit and interact with four of Together Women Rise’s grantees, including Ripple Africa, Advancing Girls’ Education in Africa (AGE Africa), The Mooncatcher Project, and Shared Interest. Registration for this trip is now closed.
Time: Noon ET / 9 am PT
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT
How to Join: Click here to join the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS meeting.
Book: Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home, and World by David Moinina Sengeh
Speaker: TBD
Summary: As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he served—not to mention his family and friends—shared his conviction that all girls belong in the classroom. He was shocked to learn that many of those closest to him, including a member of his own household, were against lifting a long-standing policy banning pregnant girls from school.
Radical Inclusion is the dramatic narrative of Sengeh’s drive to guarantee pregnant girls’ right to an education. His story functions as a parable that can help us all advocate for change by reimagining the systems that perpetuate exclusion.
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Featured Grantees: No Means No South Africa and Project Zawadi
Guest Speakers:
Brianna Darling, Operations Manager, Project Zawadi
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
On this expansive journey to Cambodia, you will visit and interact with two of the organizations that Rise has supported: Kids Play International and Mith Samlanh. Registration for this trip is now closed.
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT
How to Join: Click here to join the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS meeting.
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Featured Grantee: GAIA Vaccine Foundation
Guest Speaker: Tiffani Crippin, Executive Director, GAIA Vaccine Foundation
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT
How to Join: Click here to join the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS meeting.
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