🌟 Volunteer as a Mentor & Empower First-Generation Women Entrepreneurs! 🌟
Help first-generation women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, Malawi, Mozambique, Sri Lanka & Pakistan. Through the EWG project by the Commonwealth of Learning, we are looking for mentors that want to share their skills in business, finance, marketing, and more.
✨ Why Mentor?
• Make real impact
• Share your expertise
• Support economic independence
• Join a global network for change
📩 To learn more about the mentorship program, see our website: empoweringwomenandgirls.col.org/apply-to-be-a-mentor/
✅ To apply to be a mentor, click here: colewg.formalto.app/NeE2S38aIA
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Empowering Students, One Lesson at a Time!
Meet Ms Faith Andambo – Headmistress of Jimi River Primary School in Papua New Guinea’s Jiwaka Province. Through the Accounting and Basic Bookkeeping course offered under the Pacific Partnership for Open, Distance, and Flexible Learning, with support from the Commonwealth of Learning @COL4D and funding from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade @MFATNZ, Faith gained more than just skills.
With training delivered by AWEST Pacific Community Leadership Training Institute, she’s now strengthening her school’s financial practices and empowering her students.
“Our students grow peanuts and coffee – their income-generating crops. With the financial skills I’ve learned, I can now guide them to manage money better,” Faith shared. The school is even working to open student bank accounts with the Bank of South Pacific to promote early saving habits.
Faith’s story shows how investing in educators leads to community-wide impact through financial literacy.
#COL4D #MFATNZ #SkillsForLife #EmpowerThroughEducation #YouthEmpowerment #BookkeepingBasics #TVETinAction #JiwakaProvince #PapuaNewGuinea #BuildingSkills #AWEST
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COL-VUSSC announce Webinar Series #6: “Farming Smarter, Feeding Stronger”
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) @COL4D, through its Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC), is organising the sixth instalment in its webinar series, “Farming Smarter, Feeding Stronger.”
This session will feature Dr Kimone Joseph, Head, and Dr Barry Casimir, Programme Officer, at the University of the West Indies Global Campus, Dominica, who will jointly present on “Sustainable Agriculture Farmer Field School: The Dominican Farmers’ Lived Experiences.”
VUSSC is committed to supporting small states by:
• Enhancing institutional capacity to deliver quality online and blended learning;
• Expanding inclusive access for persons with disabilities (PWDs); and
• Encouraging the offer of competency-based courses aligned with national and regional development goals.
Through the VUSSC Voices series, COL provides a platform for dialogue, collaboration, and innovation – responding to the shared challenges and aspirations of Commonwealth countries.
Next event:
Date & Time: Wednesday, 25 June 2025 at 09:00 hrs PDT/Vancouver (Time Zone converter: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)
Webinar Objectives:
• To expand and strengthen alliances among VUSSC stakeholders.
• To facilitate sharing experiences, explore responses to common challenges, provide guidance, and promote knowledge sharing and collaboration across Commonwealth countries.
• To discuss the challenges faced by small Commonwealth countries in accessing high-quality post-secondary education.
• To highlight how VUSSC addresses these challenges through collaborative development and distance learning.
To register, visit: bit.ly/3HiLLEZ
For more information, click here: www.col.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/COL-VUSSC-VOICES-6.pdf
#COL4D #VUSSC #SustainableAgriculture #FarmingSmarter #FeedingStronger #AgricultureInnovation #SmallStatesDevelopment #FoodSecurity #OnlineLearning #CommonwealthEducation #FarmerFieldSchool
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