Become a member of FAWE

You can become a member of FAWE or of the FAWE National Chapter in the country in which you live. To find out how to become a member of FAWE, please contact the Regional Secretariat. To find out how to become a member of the National Chapter of your choice, please contact the Chapter directly.

Friends of FAWE

If you live in the United States of America, you can get involved through Friends of FAWE and contribute to supporting our activities. Please contact the Regional Secretariat for more information.

Volunteering

You can support the Regional Secretariat or the National Chapter of your choice by placing your skills, energy and time at our service. This can include legal support to women’s groups and young girls, mentoring, sensitisation activities, skills training, etc. Please contact the Regional Secretariat for more information.

Internships

FAWE has established an internship programme at its Regional Secretariat in Nairobi, Kenya, and at its West Africa sub-Regional Office (WASRO) in Dakar, Senegal to:

• Provide an opportunity for interns to use these FAWE workplaces as an active learning environment
• Provide opportunities for new entrants to acquire skills that would make them employable in future
• Assist students to obtain required practical experience in a workplace environment

Internships at FAWE are open to registered students, recent graduates and those seeking career change, who wish to gain academic credit or experience through practical training prior to entry/re-entry into the labour market. Interns are expected to contribute their skills, knowledge and competencies while acquiring supplemental training in their area of specialisation.

Internships are normally for a period of either three or six months. An intern will normally work an average of twenty hours per week and may receive a small stipend where applicable.

Please contact the Regional Secretariat for more information.

Spread the word

Tell your family, friends, colleagues, business partners, members of your community or local leadership about the challenges to girls’ education in Africa, FAWE’s work to overcome those challenges and how your involvement can support FAWE’s efforts.

Alternatively, if you are involved in the media, you can highlight girls’ education issues in Africa through your media channel.

Please contact the Resource Centre for print and audiovisual material that can help spread the word.

Make a difference

You can make a difference by sponsoring a child, a school, a local community group or one of FAWE’s programme activities or by donating the following:

• Land and building materials for construction of gender-responsive education facilities
• Teaching and learning materials, school equipment and installations
• Food items for school feeding programmes
• Personal hygiene products
• Other forms of material support of your choice