BY HABEN GIRMA The Eritrean Youth Initiative (EYI) invited me to Ottawa to keynote their inaugural fundraiser dinner. The sold-out event on June 24th raised scholarships for high school students heading to college. My friend Negash Haile and his colleagues at EYI brought together Canadians from diverse backgrounds to recognize students making a difference.
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By BBC, Haben Girma was the first deaf-blind student to graduate from Harvard Law School. Today the Eritrean-American fights for better education for deaf-blind people worldwide. Ms Girma was born in California after her mother fled Eritrea in the early 1980s. Growing up in the US school system, she benefited from accessible technology, such as a […]
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By Fazle Rabbani and Yodit Tesfaghebriel, ALL CHILDREN CAN LEARN. This is the slogan of a classroom in Daerit Elementary School in Asmara, Eritrea, established in January 2015 and that can welcome up to 40 children with disabilities. The classroom is part of a pilot program led by the government of Eritrea for inclusive education. The […]
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