The award ceremony of the 2021 edition of the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education is being held as part of UNESCO’s celebration of International Day of the Girl 2021. The ceremony will include a celebration of its first 10 laureates and the successful completion of the Prize’s inaugural cycle (2016 – 2020) and will conclude […]
9 – 24 November 2021 UNESCO’s General Conference will mark the Organization’s 75th anniversary with a special ceremony at Headquarters on 12 November with the participation of heads of state and government and internationally renowned artists. This session will also feature the adoption of global agreements: the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Recommendation on […]
UNESCO Special Ambassador Dr. h.c. Ute-Henriette Ohoven, who with her YOU Foundation supports sustainable development projects worldwide, including in Senegal, met Prof. Dr. Gert Auffarth from the University of Heidelberg’s renowned eye clinic at a benefit gala in Heidelberg where he donated to a project to help a young girl who was born with albinism. […]
With a portion of the 2020 Christmas Donation Funds, that we received from our generous supporters last year, we were able to install several more solar powered wells in the Matam region in northeast Senegal. Matam, because of its proximity to the dry Sahel area, is one of Senegal’s regions that is most threatened with food […]
The program to support child laborers and marginalized youth in Dhaka, Bangladesh, provides access to education to extremely disadvantaged and vulnerable children whose everyday lives are affected by abuse, exploitation and violence due to their hard work in factories for up to 16 hours a day Night schools to give them a better future and […]
