The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) at the U.S. Department of State is committed to including persons with disabilities as exchange program participants...
Education in one Nigerian slum goes digital as charity creates virtual learning hub
"At Slum2School we believe that the future of education is digital and every child deserves to have access to the best of educational tools to...
Grant Writing: Get your next grant through collaboration
Jesse Lutabingwa, Associate Vice Chancellor of International Education and Development at Appalachian State University, one of the Fellowship's Leadership in Civic Engagement Institutes, has written...
Resilience – in Leadership, and in Friendship
In 2014, I participated for the first time in the Mandela Washington Fellowship. I was assigned to host Dr. Pierre Balamou, a physician from Guinea,...
How Drexel’s Mandela Washington Fellows are Taking on COVID-19 Across the Globe
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus in the United States, the Drexel University community has continued to innovate and collaborate to find solutions for the...
Alumna Fights Against the Coronavirus with Fashion
In the Liberian capital of Monrovia, the government mandates that all citizens must wear face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 2019 Fellowship Alumna...
Fellowship Alumnus Receives U.S. Embassy Grant for Work with COVID-19
Rural Health Mission Nigeria, run by 2018 Fellowship Alumnus Muhammad Saddiq, was recently been awarded a $20,000 grant by the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria to implement...
Kenya: Give Us Your Farm Throw-Aways; We’ll Give Back Black Gold
Growing up in rural Kenya where farming was the core business, social entrepreneur and 2019 Fellowship Alumna Joyce Kamande has always been passionate about supporting farmers and...
Four Ways to Use Your Business for Good
2019 Fellowship Alumna Deborah Brown, creative director of the KidsABILITY Initiative, is applying her talents to help the most vulnerable in Nigeria.
His Business Secret? Never Giving Up.
2019 Fellowship Alumnus Abass Mamud Sesay is the founder of the nonprofit Active Ambassadors Network Sierra Leone, which works to promote climate change action, girl-child...