Meet the Six Winners of the 2019 Wise Awards

Doha, Qatar (ots/PRNewswire) - The World Innovation Summit for
Education (WISE) (https://www.wise-qatar.org/), an initiative of
Qatar Foundation (QF), has announced the six winners of the 2019 WISE
Awards, recognizing and promoting six innovative projects from across
the world that address global educational challenges.

The 2019 WISE Awards winners:

Family Business for Education (Street Child) (UK/Sierra Leone,
Nigeria and Liberia) - supports low-income families with support
packages to help fund children's' education, including financial aid,
business training, planning support, mentoring and access to
incentivised savings schemes and loans. Since 2009, the project has
supported over 15,000 families.

United World Schools: Teaching the Unreached (UK/Cambodia, Nepal
and Myanmar) - develops community schools in highly remote villages,
making education easily accessible and involving communities along
the way through recruiting and training local teachers. Over 25,000
children have been given the chance to attend school for the first
time as a result.

Micro:bit Educational Foundation (UK/Global) - an accessible and
affordable device to help children and students around the world
learn how to design, create, code and program. Supported by the BBC,
Micro:bit works with partners globally to provide access to entry
level technology, having a real impact on girls and under-represented
groups.

Programa Criança Feliz (Brazil) - one of the largest early
childhood development home visiting programs in the world, launched
by the Brazilian Ministry of Citizenship. The intent is to reach all
of the country's most vulnerable pregnant women and young children,
offering a network of protection and care services. Since 2016, the
program has trained 20,000 home visitors and 3,000 supervisors to
reach nearly 500,000 children and pregnant women.

Arpan's Personal Safety Education Programme (India) - the largest
NGO addressing child sexual abuse in the country, providing
prevention and intervention services to children and adults. A total
of 200,000 children and adults have been impacted by the program
since its creation.

Akilah Institute (USA/Rwanda) - an award-winning women's college
that delivers high-quality, market-relevant education through a lens
of opportunity and sustainability for women at its Rwanda campus.
Akilah's model leverages technology, competency-based education, and
personalized learning.

The projects will be celebrated during the WISE Global Summit from
November 19- 21, 2019 in Doha, Qatar. The theme of the global Summit
is "UnLearn, ReLearn: What it means to be Human
(https://www.wise-qatar.org/apply/)". In addition to publicity and
networking opportunities, each will receive $20,000 (US).

For more information about the WISE Awards
(http://www.wise-qatar.org/wise-awards)

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Contact:
Lina Lahlou
media@wise.org.qa

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