Posts by Shanna Keown
Nurturing Minds and SEGA's Response to COVID-19

When the Tanzanian government announced that all schools had to close, SEGA had about a day to get all the girls home. That meant there was no time to send the girls with any homework. The students live in many regions of Tanzania from 20 miles to 200 miles away from the school. SEGA ensured all the girls made it home safely, including those who had a seven-hour bus ride and a motorcycle ride to get home.

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SEGA's Planting Science Program

It’s planting time at SEGA. This year, 45 Form 1 students are participating in the Planting Science Program. The program is designed to teach girls the scientific method and the building blocks of how to perform a controlled scientific experiment, how to develop hypotheses,and how to determine independent and dependent variables, and set up an experiment.

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Career Development and Continuing Education Scholarships at SEGA

While delivering a high-quality education, in a safe, nurturing environment, SEGA recognizes that secondary school diplomas are not enough to lift girls out of poverty. SEGA’s Education for Life Program (EFL) is delivered through all five years of its on-campus curriculum and helps build skills and confidence so that SEGA students can go on to higher levels of education, get good paying jobs, and become future leaders in their homes, professions, and communities.

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SEGA Graduation!

On October 27, 2018, 34 Form 4 students graduated from SEGA having completed their final year of “Ordinary Level” secondary school. Thirty-eight Standard 7 students who finished their last year of primary school and will begin their O-Levels at SEGA next term were also part of this year’s graduating class.

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