S4Si Scholarship Recipients

50 S4Si scholarship recipients went on a study tour at Matemwe on Saturday, July 31st, 2010, visiting kikoy makers, sand roofing tile producers, and seaweed harvesters. This gave a chance for all scholarship recipients to get to know each other as well as their mentors, and learn about the Zanzibar environment.
This year, eight new scholars were chosen from Ben Bella Secondary School, Lumumba Secondary School, and Mombasa Secondary School.


Scholars listening to the ex-Sheha of Matemwe explain the sand roofing tile production.


Roofing Tiles.


Scholars observing the seaweed.


The 8 new scholars (Asha, Nargus, Mulfat, Wasila, Rahma, Maryam, Saida, Khadija) with S4Si delegates (Hampton Neal and Alison Grady).

AGSP Mentor Training

The AGSP Mentors gathered at FAWE Zanzibar on August 5th, 2010, to hold a discussion on how to use the mentoring guide of AGSP. The 19 mentors out of 24 in Unguja attended the discussion and talked about the following:

- Becoming a good mentor
- Gender and girl's rights
- Importance of girl's education and empowerment
- Leaders and leadership
- Adolescence, reproduction, and relationships
- Marriage and family
- HIV/AIDS
- Jobs, professions, and careers.

Mentors discussed how they can empower girls to stand up in front of the public and talk about their problems and be able to solving these problems themselves. The mentors also brainstormed ideas of bringing together AGSP scholars from different schools but under the same mentor. Competitions, debates, and elocutions were part of the activities discussed.

The TUSEME empowerment model was introduced to Kijini School in Matemwe. TUSEME is an empowerment process designed to enable girls to understand the gender construct of the society they live in, to identify and analyse the emergent problems and how they hinder their academic and social development, to speak out about problems, and to take action to solve them. At Kijini, a 4-day workshop was conducted for 64 male and female students between Standard VII and Form II.


Student collecting data for the first step of the TUSEME process: Familiarization


Student presenting on the collected data



Students divided up into groups and working together to create a map of Kijini School

Teachers performing theatre in front of the community and students about issues brought up during the TUSEME process

FAWE Projects

On July 29th, 2010, FAWE coordinator, Asma Ismail, and Sheha of Kijini discussing the progress of classroom construction, funded by Action Aid. This visit to Kijini also consisted of data collection of children who are not enrolled. This is the first step in the community advocacy campaign in Kijini.

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