NDAJEE
at Home
a virtual benefit for girls' education
Women's Global Education Project
10/01/20
EVENT SPONSORS PHD LEVEL $10,000
MIDDLE SCHOOL $1,000
Lucy & Peter Ascoli John Kulczycki Manaaki Foundation Sarah Miyata & Stephen Weber Lynn Wentworth & Ed Wroble
MASTER'S LEVEL $7,500 Moller Family Foundation
UNIVERSITY LEVEL $5,000 Lynn Besser Regine & Rick Corrado Edelman Friedman Law Group Laura & Eric Jordahl Marie & Jorge Olmos
HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL $2,500 Amgen Foundation Shan Bhati Donna Cook & Matt Maciejewski April & Paul Donnellan Justin Hilson JLL Chicago K&L Gates LLP Leinenweber Baroni & Daffada LLC Florence & Igor Playner Lisa Snow & Franco Turrinelli
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Anonymous Barnes & Thornburg LLP Elizabeth & Lincoln Ellis Nancy Juda & Jens Brasch Jennifer Kenoian Norma Maglio Teenie Matlock & Paul Maglio Sarah McCarthy & Diarmaid Collins Aimee & Joe Mills Joan & Bruce Sherman Monica Weed & Frank Smith Phyllis Valentine Suzanne & Mike Wychocki
ELEMENTARY LEVEL $750 Julie Stagliano
HOST LEVEL $500 Jennifer & John Iatonna Linda Schurman & Glenn Gerber Amanda Spikes Bill Taylor Young Professionals Board (YPB) Angela Zotos & Dennis Sobieski
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HOW TO JOIN NDAJEE
at Home
While we can't get together in person this year, we are excited to bring Ndajee online to support girls in rural Senegal & Kenya through the Covid-19 pandemic!
Watch online at www.ndajee.cbo.io on Thursday, October 1st, 7-8pm CDT
BEFORE THE EVENT
7:00 PM
AT HOME HAPPY HOUR At your leisure, enjoy our Girl Power Spritz and "Education is a Human Right" Elixir and while listening to our Ndajee at Home Spotify playlist
Emceed by Jerome McDonnell, WBEZ Reporter
NDAJEE AT HOME WELCOME Amy Maglio, Founder & Executive Director DANCING WITH WGEP SCHOLARS Video celebration with scholars in Kenya!
WGEP PHILANTHROPY AWARD Honoring Sue Crothers, passionate advocate, philanthropist and former WGEP Board President
VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH NICHOLAS KRISTOF Conducted by WGEP board member, Mariam Huss
VIRTUAL PADDLE RAISE & SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Harriet Spears, Strategic Partnerships & Comms Manager
8:30 PM
SILENT AUCTION CLOSES Make your final bids, and check out at ndajee.cbo.io Pickup & delivery will be coordinated via email
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Women's Global Education Project is now on Spotify! Scan the QR code below or type "Ndajee at Home 2020 Cocktail Hour Playlist" via Spotify for a curated selection of modern Senegalese and Kenyan artists to play during your at-home cocktail hour! If you're not on Spotify, here are a few song selections to get you excited for the 10/1 livestream at 7pm CDT:
1. "DĂŠranger," by Viviane Chidid 2. "Serin Fallu," by Youssou N'Dour 3. "Yoolelle - Maman," by Baaba Maal 4. "Suzanna," by Sauti Sol 5. "Siri," by Fena Gitu
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at Home HAPPY HOUR COCKTAILS Girl Power Spritz 2oz Vodka 1.5oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice .75oz Fresh Lime Juice .75oz Simple Syrup 4 Cucumber Slices 2oz Soda Water "Cucumber Crush" Recipe by Julieta Campos Chicago Mixologist and Consultant
"Education is a Human Right" Elixir 1.5oz Gin 0.75oz Simple Syrup 0.5oz Fresh Lime Juice 0.75oz Chareau, Aloe Liqueur 2 dashes of Orange Bitters Pinch of salt Mint Muddle mint and bitters in a rock glass, shake other ingredients in a shaker with ice for 5 seconds, strain into the rock glass with the mint, top with ice, and garnish with a lime wheel. Recipe by Berlin Goss, Chicago cocktail specialist formerly of the Michelin Bib award-winning restaurant, MFK. 4
GUEST OF HONOR Our 2020 Philanthropy Award winner is Sue Crothers, WGEP's former Board President! Sue has been a fierce advocate for WGEP for the past decade, and has made incredible contributions to the River Forest and Chicago community as the Founder & Director of the One Earth Film Festival's Young Filmmakers Contest and as a board member for Planned Parenthood of Illinois. Sue is a Director of a private foundation that cares deeply about enhancing local and global communities through healthcare, education, and empowerment. Pictured below is Sue and her husband, Bill Gee, on a trip to WGEP Senegal in 2019!
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PROGRAM FEATURING "Nicholas Kristof in Conversation with Mariam Huss
New York Times columnist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and bestselling author Nicholas Kristof will join WGEP board member and Managing Director at Axxum Consulting, LLC. Mariam Huss for a lively conversation on how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting young women around the world. Livestream hosted by Jerome McDonnell
WBEZ Chicago Public Radio reporter and longtime WGEP advocate Jerome McDonnell will host the live segments of Ndajee at Home! As the host of WBEZ's global affairs program Worldview for over two decades, Jerome is passionate about shining a spotlight on Chicago-based international development efforts.
Video updates from WGEP program partners
Hear from Casimir Coly, WGEP Program Coordinator in Senegal, as well as WGEP scholars in Kenya, on how they are adapting to school and market closures due to the pandemic.Â
Stay tuned until the end of Ndajee at Home for a special announcement about WGEP's program growth! 6
Women’s Global Education Project (WGEP) is an award-winning nonprofit committed to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in rural regions of Senegal and Kenya. In the rural world, scores of girls and young women are left behind. They do not have the opportunity to attend school. A lack of education keeps girls from achieving their full potential and contributes to cycles of poverty and underdevelopment. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified risks for girls: the Malala Fund estimates that as many as 20 million adolescent girls will not return to school when the crisis has passed. We partner with dynamic local leaders and take a contextualized, comprehensive approach to ensure that the structures preventing girls from attending and succeeding in school are dismantled. Our teams have been working hard to respond to our communities' most urgent needs related to the pandemic: including food distribution, remote learning support, public health initiatives, and counseling.
Make a donation online at https://cbo.io/d/ndajee or text NDAJEE to 56651
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$175,000
Virtual
PADDLE RAISE
This year's event will not have a live paddle raise, so we invite everyone in our global community to make a gift at your earliest convenience. Every contribution towards our $175,000 goal will help us support the girls and women in our program through and beyond the COVID-19 crisis. Make your gift via check or at https://cbo.io/d/ndajee.
$2500
$50 0
provides a classroom of girls with comprehensive scholarships
equals 200 masks distributed among rural community members & schools
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supports three community handwashing and sanitizer stations
$1000
$250
$50
supports 8 high school students with leadership training
provides 10 families with 50kg rice to combat COVID-related food insecurity
provides one WGEP scholar with remote learning resources
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A MESSAGE TO SUE Congratulations to Sue Crothers, WGEP Philanthropy Award honoree! We are in awe of your dedication to the Chicago, River Forest, and global community.
SINCERELY, WGEP BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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"If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a nation." - African Proverb
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"Empowering girls who would otherwise have few future opportunities is the best way to combat racism, poverty, war, migration and climate change. And I truly believe it." - Marie Olmos
In a single year, WGEP reaches: 758 adolescent girls with comprehensive school scholarships in Kenya & Senegal 378 girls through our anti-FGM retreat in Kenya 185 high school students in Senegal with leadership training & development 964 girls and boys in after-school clubs to discuss gender roles, incomegeneration, and health 9,686 students with library books across 40 under-resourced schools in Kenya 714 adult women with literacy classes 5,000+ parents and community members
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Belonging to the Nation Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939-1951 John J. Kulczycki "Belonging to the Nation is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the contentious re-engineering of European societies after the Second World War. Kulczycki's magisterial account is the first systematic treatment in English of the enormously complicated and hotly contested question of how to deal with several million people with connections to Polish language and culture who had nonetheless spent the war classified as "Ethnic Germans.'" - James E. Bjork, author of Neither German Nor Pole When the Nazis annexed western Poland in 1939, they quickly set about identifying Polish citizens of German origin and granting them the privileged legal status of ethnic Germans of the Reich. Following Germany’s defeat in World War II, Sovietdominated Poland incorporated eastern Germany and proceeded to do just the opposite: searching out Germans of Polish origin and offering them Polish citizenship. Underscoring the processes of inclusion and exclusion that mold national communities, Belonging to the Nation examines the efforts of Nazi Germany and postwar Poland to nationalize inhabitants of the contested Polish– German borderlands.
John J. Kulczycki is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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40% discount offered to Ndajee participants through November 6: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/exhibits/HX7462
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"WGEP's programs give girls the opportunity to decide their own futures. I'm happy to help." -LYNN BESSER
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In honor of Sue who makes the world better and works tirelessly to leave a better earth and society for our children.
"We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children."
- Julie Moller
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Congratulations to Amy and the Women's Global Education Project staff and Board for their vision and commitment to women and girls as changemakers! Thank you for building a movement of empowerment and equality. We deeply appreciate this opportunity to expand our own compassion and reach.
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NANCY JUDA & JENS BRASCH
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world in mid-March, we've been inspired by the girls and women in our programs who have dedicated time to support their families & communities.
Adult women in WGEP's income generation groups in Senegal learned how to sew 800 face masks and distributed them to rural schools and community members.
Nancy Kawira is a high school scholar in rural Kenya. She uses her WGEP-provided radio to tune in to remote learning lessons amid school closures. She is the oldest of four children and is responsible for looking out and caring for her siblings. Her father died of HIV, and her mother was unable to care for her after his death. Nancy and her siblings live on one acre of land, and are responsible for all farming and household duties. Despite her struggles, Nancy is a resilient and bright student! She dreams of becoming a lawyer to help other girls and children with difficult upbringings.
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Our Sisters Lead leadership program alumni in Senegal jumped into action in March, hosting radio programs to educate rural community members on proper handwashing and social distancing, and later on the dangers of gender-based violence during the lockdown.
"Because of the leadership program I now volunteer in my neighborhood for the Red Cross committee to fight against COVID-19. I am happy I can help during this pandemic.� - Ndeye Coumba, high school student and Our Sisters Lead program mentor 20
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SPECIAL THANKS TO SILENT AUCTION DONORS Alexis Coe Alison Roman The Alliance Francaise de Chicago Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman Brit Bennett Chicago Council on Global Affairs Chicago Media Project Chipotle Clear Perspective Advisors DIOP Hannah Beatrice Quinn Headspace Jen McNulty Fine Arts Jia Tolentino Joe Mills Art John Hayley's Unbreakable Fitness Laudi Vidni LinkedIn Lou Malnati’s LUSH Mariam Huss MeowBox Nicholas Kavanau Ordinary Habit Padma Lakshmi Revolution Brewing Ryan’s Rub Sara Mastantuono, Equinox Sydney Claps ThirdLove This Little Goat Wines for Humanity World Centric
US TEAM Daniela Bovio Amy Maglio Lily Messih Harriet Spears
PRODUCTION PARTNERS Aggressively Compassionate Gravity Well Studio
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Shan Bhati Regine Corrado Sue Crothers Mariam Huss Jennifer Kenoian Aimee Mills Florence Playner Julie Stagliano
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS BOARD Deyanira Avila Romero Hannah Bonecutter Meredith Bruster Caitlin Cangialosi Aliyah Jervier Kerry Khan Anna Kilgas Katherine Koller Zoe McCourty Anna Moorhead Ayeesha Patel Oriane Playner
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