Sudan
- EVE - Empowering Village Education. A project which provides supports for children in over 100 primary schools in Southern Sudan.
Ambassadors Girls’ Scholarship Program (AGSP)
- An NGOs working in the South Sudan, CARE was selected as an AGSP implementing partner because they already had the Sudan Basic Education Program (SBEP) under way with USAID funding and other partners. AGSP has supported 1,200 girls in 26 schools in South Sudan. During December 2005, a raid by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) cause the evacuation of all CARE staff from their compound in Maridi. At that time, AGSP was providing support to 1,200 girls in 20 Community Girls’ Schools. The raid and subsequent evacuation suspended support for the AGSP in South Sudan. Opportunities for future AGSP activities in South Sudan are being explored.
FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
- From its office in Khartoum WTI sponsors refugees and internally displaced Sudanese to study undergraduate level courses at universities and colleges in Sudan. To promote gender equity over half the beneficiaries are female. WTI supports scholarships with funds from various donors, and is the implementing partner for the UNHCR Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative (DAFI). Programme beneficiaries study a wide range of subjects relevant to the social and economic development of Sudan.
- International Scholarship Program for Africa (4). VALUE: $100,000 ($25,000 x 4 years). Must be citizen of an African country. To renew — maintain high academic standing (7.8 on a 9-point York scale) in each academic year at York