2023 marks the 15th Anniversary of Nurturing Minds and SEGA! One of the ways we are celebrating this important milestone is through a monthly blog series titled “SEGA is the Solution”.

Young girls are most heavily impacted by lack of education, poverty and climate change. A striking body of evidence demonstrates that organizations like Nurturing Minds and SEGA are the solution to break the cycle of poverty, create prosperity and combat climate change. Each month we will be spotlighting one of SEGA’s graduates so you can see the impact that SEGA’s holistic approach to education has had on their lives.

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2023 marks the 15th Anniversary of Nurturing Minds and SEGA! One of the ways we are celebrating this important milestone is through a monthly blog series titled “SEGA is the Solution”.

Young girls are most heavily impacted by lack of education, poverty and climate change. A striking body of evidence demonstrates that organizations like Nurturing Minds and SEGA are the solution to break the cycle of poverty, create prosperity and combat climate change. Each month we will be spotlighting one of SEGA’s graduates so you can see the impact that SEGA’s holistic approach to education has had on their lives.

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2023 marks the 15th Anniversary of Nurturing Minds and SEGA! One of the ways we are celebrating this important milestone is through a monthly blog series titled “SEGA is the Solution”.

Young girls are most heavily impacted by lack of education, poverty and climate change. A striking body of evidence demonstrates that organizations like Nurturing Minds and SEGA are the solution to break the cycle of poverty, create prosperity and combat climate change. Each month we will be spotlighting one of SEGA’s graduates so you can see the impact that SEGA’s holistic approach to education has had on their lives.

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2023 marks the 15th Anniversary of Nurturing Minds and SEGA! One of the ways we are celebrating this important milestone is through a monthly blog series titled “SEGA is the Solution”.

Young girls are most heavily impacted by lack of education, poverty and climate change. A striking body of evidence demonstrates that organizations like Nurturing Minds and SEGA are the solution to break the cycle of poverty, create prosperity and combat climate change. Each month we will be spotlighting one of SEGA’s graduates so you can see the impact that SEGA’s holistic approach to education has had on their lives.

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In 2017 I traveled to the SEGA Girls’ School for the first time. I was encouraged to participate in the English Fluency Program by several fellow Board members and I jumped at the opportunity. I had been eager to go and visit SEGA to see firsthand how our school operated and meet our SEGA partners and students, but I wanted a purpose, not just a visit.

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Inaugural STEM Adventures at SEGA Program Helps Students Envision Study and Career Paths in Science

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Recently, Nurturing Minds received the letter below from SEGA graduate Elina. In her letter, she expressed her thanks for being able to visit the U.S., along with fellow SEGA graduate Khadija, as part of this year’s Study Abroad Program. With Elina’s permission, we are excited to share her experience - in her own words - with the broader NM and SEGA community.

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After two and a half years away I was finally able to get back to SEGA where so much has changed and yet in so many ways things have also remained the same. Nurturing Minds and SEGA co-founder, Polly Dolan, joined me along with several volunteers, including two young women who led clubs supporting SEGA while in high school and my niece!

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In honor of Menstrual Hygiene Day - a global holiday celebrated annually on May 28th which helps break the silence, raise awareness and changes negative social norms around menstrual health and hygiene - we are excited to share with you this blog which has been written by SEGA’s Form 3 student Magreth. Magreth has an interest in being a broadcast journalist when she is older and has written this blog on a topic that is important to her.

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Some people become teachers by obtaining education degrees. Others become teachers by just opening their hearts to enrich the lives of others. If you fall into either category AND want to add a life-changing, cultural experience to that accomplishment, then we invite you to join us for the return of our in-person, two-week long English Fluency Program this fall at the SEGA Girls’ School in Tanzania.

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Meet Clementina Adam Mwambene, SEGA’s Program Coordinator for its Modern Girl Community Outreach program, also called Msichana wa Kisasa. She joined SEGA in June 2016 and has helped the Modern Girl program expand substantially during the past six years. She says, “I think the platform that SEGA provides in championing girls’ education and empowerment, whether in school or in the community where I work, is amazing. Through SEGA I have seen girls (mentees) and mentors become young women of substance.”

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At this point, most of us are closely monitoring COVID-19 vaccination rates in our areas of the world. During the early stages of the pandemic, many eyes were fixed on continental Africa's response. Almost 2 years after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) finds that the continent can control the pandemic in 2022, if the current vaccination trend continues.

Blog written by Myranda James - Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management graduate student, and Nurturing Minds and SEGA Development and Communications Intern (2021/22)

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This International Women’s Day, we are excited to share with you the blog post below which has been written by SEGA’s Form 3 student Magreth. Magreth has an interest in being a broadcast journalist when she is older and has written this blog on a topic that is important to her - gender discrimination in Tanzania.

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SEGA students continue to excel! The 2021 National Exam results, NECTA, were recently announced and they exceeded the previous year’s outstanding results! The SEGA students follow the Tanzanian national curriculum, and that requires students in Forms 2 and 4 taking national exams in order to advance to the next level. Scores are organized into four categories, with Division One being the one with the highest scores and Division Four the lowest scores.

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Since 2016, The Modern Girl Community Outreach Program has empowered vulnerable Tanzanian girls with knowledge about their bodies and their rights, along with teaching practical, income-generating skills.

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We are excited for you to get to know SEGA’s Headmistress Elly Sarakikya! Below is an interview between Elly and Nurturing Minds’ Board Member Susan Schneider, who spent two years teaching English at SEGA under Elly’s guidance as a Peace Corps volunteer.

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Nurturing Minds volunteers and SEGA facilitators partnered together to launch an exciting new volunteer initiative for the SEGA pre-form students this past November. The English Fluency Program Virtual Teaching Sessions commenced with excitement at being able to have all the participants connect across three different countries! The inaugural event partnered Nurturing Minds volunteers with pre-form students and SEGA staff via thirty-minute zoom teaching sessions.

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SEGA’s much anticipated, ninth graduation took place on Saturday, September 25th. With a total of 58 students in the Form Four class, a total of 294 students have now graduated from SEGA since its first graduating class in 2013. It was a fabulous, lively celebration, filled with entertaining activities by the students that included a fashion show, songs and dances.

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