When COVID-19 brought the world economy to a standstill in early 2020, every business around the globe was affected in some way. After prolonged lockdowns...
FP Virtual Dialogue: Profiles of Resilience
Around the world, the coronavirus has had an outsized impact on vulnerable populations in fragile countries, overtaxing healthcare infrastructure and government response systems while exacerbating...
Fellowship Celebrates Disability Inclusion Milestone
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...