Impact Stories from Environmental Sustainability Policy Area
Project Tajikistan: Energy for Education
Fellow(s): Gulnora Anvarova
Country: Tajikistan
Cohort: 2015
Policy Area(s): Environmental Sustainability
Gulnora Anvarova, 2015 fellow of Tajikistan, is leading a partnership between her university, Tajik Technical University, and Poland’s AGH University of Science and Technology. The goal of Project Tajikistan: Energy for Education is to share STEM knowledge between university students and address Tajikistan’s power shortages. A group of 20 Tajik students will participate in a course via internet focused on renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Report Date...: 3/20/2017
environmental campaign
Fellow(s): Sara Benyakhlef
Country: Morocco
Cohort: 2015
Policy Area(s): Environmental Sustainability
Sara Benyakhlef, 2015 fellow of Morocco, is a member of the Marine Area Protection & Sustainable Development (AMP Morocco), which recently co-organized an environmental campaign with Moroccan Coalition for Climate Justice to raise awareness against the use of plastic bags in Morocco. Sara works as a researcher at the Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies plans to continue working with AMP Morocco to create a national movement for climate change and environment protections and get more youth involved.
Report Date...: 7/4/2016
Leading Women in Water and Technology
Fellow(s): Sophie Ngassa
Country: Cameroon
Cohort: 2014
Policy Area(s): Environmental Sustainability
After the 2014 program, Sophie Ngassa of Cameroon created the platform, “Leading Women in Water and Technology.” In a recent video interview with The Waterbearers’ co-founder Spryte Loriano, Sophie referred to the TechWomen program as her source of inspiration for the platform she created. Sophie has been teaching at a technical college for 10 years, and she is passionate about improving access to clean water resources and promoting use of green technology and sanitation practices in Cameroon.
Read More »Report Date...: 4/18/2016
