AGE Africa: Get to Know Them!

AGE Africa: Get to Know Them!

Categorized as: , , , , , , , & Tagged as: on August 25, 2018. Related Grantee: Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa.

Here are some participants from Tri for Malawi 2017. On September 9, 2018, AGE Africa will host their tenth annual Tri for Malawi, a fundraiser for their scholarship program. If you wish to participate, you can register here. To donate to the fundraiser, click here....Read more
Welcome to the Family: Announcing Skees Family Foundation’s 2015 Partners

Welcome to the Family: Announcing Skees Family Foundation’s 2015 Partners

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 By Suzanne Skees for Skees Family Foundation   We laughingly call SFF “the world’s tiniest foundation with the mightiest ambition” to end poverty worldwide, in our lifetime. How? As Steve Jobs put it, “We have gone to exceptional lengths...Read more
Skees Family Foundation Celebrates International Women’s Day!

Skees Family Foundation Celebrates International Women’s Day!

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Photo courtesy of Upaya Social Ventures. Editor’s Note: As the world celebrates International Women’s Day tomorrow, we look to the great work our grantees are doing to advance women’s causes.  By Suzanne Skees Happy International Women’s Day! This...Read more
What it Means to be a Girl in Malawi: Lessenia’s Story

What it Means to be a Girl in Malawi: Lessenia’s Story

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Editor’s note: A young woman who made it through school and into college for economics, shares her view on the gender power imbalance that prevails from birth in Malawi. This piece, by AGE Africa alumna Lessenia Chikho, who’s now studying economics at the...Read more