KHS Teacher wins Challenge to Educational Citizenship Award & Invites all to Walk-a-Thon!
Hartford, June 4 — King's Highway Elementary School Teacher Ashley Moran, students and teachers from the SEGA School, a girls' boarding school in Tanzania, were recently invited to Hartford to receive The Challenge to Educational Citizenship Award. The group was one of 17 out of over 150 applicants (and the only elementary school) to receive the distinction. The award recognized the group's work to support education for girls in Tanzania at the SEGA school, which educates the most marginalized girls in the region, providing everything needed to achieve success, including food, books, boarding and medical care.
Walk-a-Thon Sunday, June 10
All are invited to the the 3rd Annual SEGA Walk-a-Thon being held Sunday June 10 at Wakeman Fields in Westport from 9-11 a.m. This year, the event is being organized by Staples High School Juniors Walker Marsh and Isabel Gasway. Both students spent one month at the SEGA School in Tanzania last summer.
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All proceeds from the Walk-a-Thon go directly to supporting the education of the poorest of Tanzania's girls. The students, who have formally withdrawn from school due to extreme poverty, are recruited, supported with two years of non-formal learning, where they will then enter into Form 1. The school's first cohort of girls have completed Forms 1 and 2. Upon their completion of Form 2, they took the National Exam for entrance into Form 3. 100% of the girls passed, far surpassing the national average of 45%. For information on the Walk-a-Thon, contact Ashley Moran at Ashley_Moran@westport.k12.ct.us.
Photo Caption: The SEGA group in Hartford. Left to right, back row: Enock Gray, Kelsey McGinley, Clementina Bahati, Ashley Moran, Laurence Fearon (CT Department of Education, Bureau Chief of Accountability and Improvement), Charlie Colasurdo. Front row: Rikeh Saingbe, Martin Menz.
Flyer for the Walk-a-Thon is below:
Come Support Education for Girls in Tanzania
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Meet teachers from SEGA School, a girls’ boarding school in Morogoro, Tanzania.
SEGA educates the most marginalized girls in the region, providing everything needed to achieve success, food, books, boarding, medical care, etc….
SEGA
WALK-A-THON
JUNE 10TH 9:00-11:00 Rain or Shine
WAKEMAN FIELD, Westport, CT
Near Bedford Middle School
