“
Good news today from Khartoum! One of our Nuba graduates, Ms Naglaa
Yacoub Abbo, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious St Gallen symposium next May. The symposium at the University of St
Gallen in Switzerland brings together 600 thinkers and decision-makers
with 200 talented young personalities to develop solutions to key issues
of our time. Naglaa has been invited as one of these 200 ‘leaders of
tomorrow’ from all over the world. This year’s symposium has the title
“Facing Risk”. That’s something with which Nuba women are all too
familiar!
Naglaa
graduated last year with a BSc (Honours) from the Faculty of Rural
Extension, Education and Development at Ahfad University for Women in
Omdurman. Her degree project was on Violence against Women. Her
university fees were met by Together for Sudan thanks to the generous
grant from the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, who also nominated Naglaa for the
St Gallen event. Many thanks to the Foundation for their interest and
support.
This
award to Naglaa is also a recognition of the work of Together for Sudan
and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation for the education of women in Africa.
Thank you to our friends at St Gallen.”
