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Last week, we started our second annual campaign, in which we shine light on the work and lives of our colleagues and friends in partner organisations. In the first blog in the series, we heard from Hisham (PYCA), and today we welcome to the website Julie from Forum for African Women in Educationalists (FAWE). Our Senior Project Lead, Gemma, offers an introduction to inHive’s work with FAWE since February of this year. Julie’s blog then depict some of the issues in their sector and countries, …

November spotlight series #2: julie khamati, fawe Read More »

In November 2020 we launched a special month-long campaign in which we shone light on the work and lives of our colleagues and friends in partner organisations. Elie, Unaza and Pippa joined us as guest writers to reveal what their day-to-day work looks like as they mobilize various stakeholders for transformative change and to share …

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By Muhammad Umair and Ján Michalko In this blog, Umair and Ján reflect on the experience working through the pandemic to complete a project between inHive and CARE Foundation to set up alumni networks in Pakistan. Funded by UKAID, the project turned towards online learning instead of in-person capacity building of school-based committees. They share …

Lights, Camera, (Masks) Action: Making Training Videos in Times of COVID Read More »

Musings on learning and transformation with an alumni lens (Part 2)  By Ján Michalko  with Ben, Dela, Isadora, Jess, and Tamzin   This is the second instalment of a two-part essay series in which Ján reflects on the role of inter-generational dialogue and learning with the help of our friends and colleagues from around the world. Focusing on crises and transitions, it shows how schools and young people engage in difficult conversations on histories and social justice and …

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Musings on learning and transformation with an alumni lens (Part 1)  Written by Ján Michalko with Dušan, Judka and Peter   In the first instalment of a two-part essay series, our Senior Project Lead Ján reflects on the role of inter-generational dialogue and learning in contexts of crisis and transitions. The essays bring together experiences from our friends and colleagues around the world – from Slovakia to South Africa. They demonstrate how teachers and young people engage in difficult conversations on histories and social justice and how alumni can play a role in the process …

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Written by Prerna Aswani, Project Lead at inHive in collaboration with Kavya Mohta, Project Associate at Nirantar Trust This blog reflects on the growing efforts towards challenging traditional gender norms in India, zooming into the example of Nirantar Trust, a feminist organisation that develops cross-sectoral collaborations & networks to challenge the status quo on women’s …

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*Team photo pre-COVID Sitting down in early January this year, I’ve tried to resist the urge to write my usual long list of resolutions, or at least not the way I’ve historically done it (“yoga every day!”, “no more caffeine!”) – things eminently sensible, but nonetheless unrealistic. Perhaps this is the year for the anti-resolution, …

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