A caring institution for students with disabilities
Ange Theonastine Ashimwe sits pensively in her wheelchair on the verandah of the flat she rents in Kigali, browsing the news on her phone. She has just completed a revision of her study material.
The 21-year-old communication and business student has long yellow hair, is dressed in shorts and sandals, has earrings in both ears and on the left side of her nose is another ring.
Ashimwe became physically disabled at the age of six when she started her primary education in her home district of Musanze.
“I used to be a normal kid who could walk but, one day, my muscles just became weak. I went to several hospitals but they could not detect a disease. When I could not walk any more I ended up in a wheelchair,” she told
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Grantees will bring together thousands of young people from the United States and the Middle East and North Africa for an exciting opportunity to engage with global peers through virtual exchange.
New York
, April 7, 2021
–– Today, the Stevens Initiative announced its support of Game Exchange, implemented by Games for Change. Games for Change is one of 19 grantees to be named a 2021 Stevens Initiative grantee.
“People-to-people exchanges are critical to advancing global peace and understanding,” said Matthew Lussenhop, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. “Through early adoption of virtual exchanges, the Stevens Initiative has elevated technology to foster collaboration between students in the United States and counterparts in the Middle East and North Africa.”
New York Academy of Sciences Receives Stevens Initiative Funding for Program to Virtually Connect Young People Around the World
Newswise New York, NY, April 7, 2021
–– Today, the Stevens Initiative announced its support of the New York Academy of Science’s Junior Academy program. The New York Academy of Sciences is one of 19 grantees named a 2021 Stevens Initiative grantee.
“People-to-people exchanges are critical to advancing global peace and understanding,” said Matthew Lussenhop, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. “Through early adoption of virtual exchanges, the Stevens Initiative has elevated technology to foster collaboration between students in the United States and counterparts in the Middle East and North Africa.”
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NAIROBI, April 6 (Xinhua) African countries will need to integrate their energy for sustainable economic development and post-COVID-19 economic recovery, experts said in Nairobi Tuesday.
The experts from academia and Africa Union, among others, said that energy as an economic and social input was central to the attainment of Africa s sustainable development as envisaged by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number seven. Africa needs to reflect on how regional energy integration contributes to energizing its economic recovery program and attainment of sustainable development, said Kenneth Mbali, a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies (IDIS) of the University of Nairobi, during the webinar organized by the institution.
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