Archive for the "Education" Category

Resources on social enterprise

Posted Mar 1, 2011 in Education, social enterprise, Uncategorized, zanaafrica by Megan - 0 Comments

Knowledge is power, and at ZanaA we are hungry for more knowledge: new insights in history, best practices that we can learn from, reports that form the basis for our statistics and decision, and more. Below are just some of [...]

Is free education a “Curse”

Posted Feb 21, 2011 in Education by faithwanjoki - 0 Comments

As the results of 2010 were announced, students who did well were celebrated by their parents and teachers for good work and efforts they had done in their results. However celebrations didn’t last long since parents and students from poor [...]

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You, yes you: Help girls blog and tweet!

Posted Jan 10, 2011 in Education, Empowerment, kenya, Kibera, , zanaafrica by Megan - 1 Comment

Happy new year! Hope your start to the new year has been as great as ours, which has been complete with fabulous volunteers from Wharton and Middlebury and a new grant: This week we join The Girl Effect by bringing [...]

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Sex workers are mommies too

Posted Dec 16, 2010 in bottom of the pyramid, Careers, Education, Empowerment, kenya, Kibera, Sanitary Pads, zanaafrica by Megan - 1 Comment

Are you defined by your job? Sure, your spouse might say you are married to your work, and may have considered filing a missing person’s report because you’re on the job all the time. But: is your job what defines [...]

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Fighting corruption with a return on investment

Posted Dec 7, 2010 in BOP, bottom of the pyramid, Education, kenya, Sanitary Pads, social enterprise, zanaafrica by Megan - 0 Comments

The Standard Newspaper this Saturday prominently featured the results of graft and mis-management of public funds on its front page: a whopping annual cost of KES 270 billion ($3.375 billion USD). This, it notes, could pay for free primary and [...]