Elimisha Msichana. Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/flagship-4-addressing-inequality/elimisha-msichana-elimisha-jamii-na-astronomia/ Astronomy for a better world! Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:43:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Elimisha Msichana. Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/flagship-4-addressing-inequality/elimisha-msichana-elimisha-jamii-na-astronomia/ 32 32 Project Improves Girls Enrollment in Rural Kenya https://astro4dev.org/project-improves-girls-enrollment-in-rural-kenya/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:08:29 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26467 The Elimisha Msichana Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (EMEJA) project, Swahili for ‘educate a girl child, educate the entire community with Astronomy’ or rather, society benefits when a girl is educated, supported by funding from the IAU-Office for Astronomy for Development, targets girls education issues in rural Kenya. The project used multiple interventions to tackle the [...]

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]]> Astro-STEM Workshops Show Promise of Improvement in Girls’ Enrolment https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-project-girls-stem-enrolment/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:06:49 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=23531 In Kenya, although 70.4% of girls (15-19yrs) achieve some sort of primary education, only 4.5% complete secondary education (WB, 2012). Only 3.5% of women (aged 15+) have completed tertiary education (WB, 2015). This is due to various socio-economic challenges such as teenage pregnancies, early marriages, FGM, poverty and lack of mentorship. Rural areas lack outreach, [...]

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]]> Supporting Girls Education in Kenya https://astro4dev.org/supporting-education-for-girls-in-kenya/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:25:44 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=23341 this article on girls education was published on DARA Big Data. Read the full article. Elimisha Msichana, Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (EMEJA) started as a mentorship programme to support girls education for school girls in Kenya between 12 to 18 years old. The programme was founded by Kenyan DARA Project student Ann Njeri, who is [...]

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]]> Overview: Elimisha Msichana. Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia. (Swahili for ‘educate a girl, educate the entire community with Astronomy’) https://astro4dev.org/overview-elimisha-msichana-elimisha-jamii-na-astronomia-swahili-for-educate-a-girl-educate-the-entire-community-with-astronomy/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:52:43 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=21989 In Kenya, although 70.4% of girls aged 15-19 years manage to achieve some sort of primary education only 4.5% complete secondary education (World Bank, 2012). Only 3.5% of women (aged 15+) have completed tertiary education (World Bank, 2015). This is due to many socio-economic challenges such as teenage pregnancies, early marriages, FGM, poverty and lack [...]

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