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Thursday, September 05 2019 - 03:02
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Meet the Six Winners of the 2019 Wise Awards
DOHA, Qatar, Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) [https://www.wise-qatar.org/], 
an initiative of Qatar Foundation (QF), has announced the six winners of the 
2019 WISE Awards, recognizing and promoting six innovative projects from across 
the world that address global educational challenges. 

The 2019 WISE Awards winners: 

Family Business for Education (Street Child) (UK/Sierra Leone, Nigeria and 
Liberia) – supports low-income families with support packages to help fund 
children's' education, including financial aid, business training, planning 
support, mentoring and access to incentivised savings schemes and loans. Since 
2009, the project has supported over 15,000 families.

United World Schools: Teaching the Unreached (UK/Cambodia, Nepal and Myanmar) – 
develops community schools in highly remote villages, making education easily 
accessible and involving communities along the way through recruiting and 
training local teachers. Over 25,000 children have been given the chance to 
attend school for the first time as a result. 

Micro:bit Educational Foundation (UK/Global) – an accessible and affordable 
device to help children and students around the world learn how to design, 
create, code and program. Supported by the BBC, Micro:bit works with partners 
globally to provide access to entry level technology, having a real impact on 
girls and under-represented groups.

Programa Criança Feliz (Brazil) – one of the largest early childhood 
development home visiting programs in the world, launched by the Brazilian 
Ministry of Citizenship. The intent is to reach all of the country's most 
vulnerable pregnant women and young children, offering a network of protection 
and care services. Since 2016, the program has trained 20,000 home visitors and 
3,000 supervisors to reach nearly 500,000 children and pregnant women.

Arpan's Personal Safety Education Programme (India) – the largest NGO 
addressing child sexual abuse in the country, providing prevention and 
intervention services to children and adults. A total of 200,000 children and 
adults have been impacted by the program since its creation.  

Akilah Institute (USA/Rwanda) – an award-winning women's college that delivers 
high-quality, market-relevant education through a lens of opportunity and 
sustainability for women at its Rwanda campus. Akilah's model leverages 
technology, competency-based education, and personalized learning.

The projects will be celebrated during the WISE Global Summit from November 19- 
21, 2019 in Doha, Qatar. The theme of the global Summit is "UnLearn, ReLearn: 
What it means to be Human" [https://www.wise-qatar.org/apply/]. In addition to 
publicity and networking opportunities, each will receive $20,000 (US).

For more information about the WISE Awards 
[http://www.wise-qatar.org/wise-awards]

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Contact: 
Lina Lahlou 
media@wise.org.qa

Source: Wise (World innovation Summit for Education)