Forum for African Women Educationalists
The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) is a pan-African non-governmental organization founded in 1992 by five women ministers of education to promote girls’ and women’s education in sub-Saharan Africa by making sure they have access to schools and are able to complete their studies and fulfill their potential, in line with UNESCO's Education For All movement. The organisation's members include ministers of education, university vice-chancellors, education policy-makers, researchers, gender specialists and human rights activists.
It has its Secretariat in Nairobi. As of 2008 it has 35 national chapters, including Benin, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
It is an International Partner Office for the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, and a partner organization of the Association of African Women for Research and Development.
Key individual members include:
- Penina Mlama - Executive Director
- Esi Sutherland-Addy - Executive Board member
- Charles Ndungu - Former Research Assistant
- Graca Machel - Former Board member
- Aicha Bah Diallo - Founding President
[edit] See also
- Femmes Africa Solidarite
- Christiana Thorpe - founder of Sierra Leone branch
- N'Dri T. Assie-Lumumba
- Fay Chung - cofounder
- Nasima Badsha - a founder member of the South African branch of the Forum for African Women Educationalists. [1]
- Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
[edit] External links
- FAWE
- Forum for African Women Educationalists of Zambia
- Forum for African Women Educationalists, Rwanda Chapter
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