Igniting your passion, Christiana's story, a $20000 scholarship to Canada and a graduate program in Lagos!
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Hey sis,
How was your week? I hope it was not stressful. Mine was quite interesting but also super busy. Did you attend our Office Hours session with Yvonne Alozie Obi yesterday? It was an amazing session on igniting your passions. One of my favourite takeaways was that you can have passions that are not for financial rewards. Some passions can be for play and that’s totally okay. I also learnt that passion can be built, just like any other thing. So as we evolve, change or grow, our passions do too.
Sis, what are you passionate about and how can you nurture it most easily? Think about it. Like Yvonne said, you can subscribe to a newsletter, dedicate 10 minutes per day, sign up for a class or have a conversation about it. Watch the replay of yesterday’s amazing session here.
A snapshot of this week’s letter
This is Christiana’s story.
An internship in the USA with visa sponsorship.
An undergraduate scholarship in Canada worth $20,000.
We found this opportunity for our sis.
Stories
From Our Archives
Deformed, and Fulfilled - Christiana Olawumi
In this story, Christiana shares about growing up with short arms in Nigeria. She speaks about being a loner in primary school, experiencing increased discrimination in secondary school and feeling inferior in university. She also talks about the shift that changed her life.
For more real stories of Nigerian women, click here. We want to amplify your story next, sis. Submit here.
FindHer
Our sis is looking to build her skills and experiences in cybersecurity before looking for jobs. Here’s an opportunity for her: Women Techsters Cohort 3.2 Bootcamp
Opportunities
What’s New
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Development and Digital Policy Intern - Henrich Boll Stiftung: For students or recent graduates interested in global development and digital policy with a background in public policy, international relations, law, economics, development studies or a related field. Visa sponsorship is available.
The Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) Fellowship: The Fellowship provides the tuition for the Foundations of American Law and Legal Education Course (a U.S. $5,000 benefit) and the LL.M. degree (a U.S. $66,650 benefit) at the Georgetown University Law Center, as well as professional development training.
University of Calgary International Entrance Scholarship: A renewable scholarship of $20,000 for international students applying for undergraduate studies at the University of Calgary.
The FREE STEM Fund: Registered and unregistered initiatives, groups, collectives, and organisations focused on the rights of girls, women, transgender and non-binary people can apply for up to 50,000 euros.
Future Leaders Programme 2024 (Commercial Graduate Trainee) - Diageo (Lagos): For recent graduates within the last two years, or students graduating in 2024. Closing on November 21, 2023.
The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Scholarship at the University of East Anglia: Each scholarship will fund the student's international tuition fees and provide them with a maintenance grant of £12,000 so that they can live in the UK and be able to cover the costs of living/ travel/ visa.
2024 CatchLight Global Fellowship: An award for visual storytellers who are poised to ignite social change through their photography, videography or leadership by leveraging the power of visuals to create impactful audience engagement and innovative distribution models.
The Next Hundred Public Health Stewards (TNH-PHS) Program: Aimed at increasing the role of youth in health and development by equipping young public health enthusiasts with the knowledge and skills relevant to public health practice.
Like these? There’s more where they came from. This week, we’ve added new opportunities to our website!
Closing Soon!
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Today, Nov 18: Nigerian Breweries Graduate Management Development Scheme 2023, Program Associate - Solina Centre for International Development and Research (Kaduna or Bauchi)
Nov 19: 2024 Summer Analyst Programme, Goldman Sachs, Protection Coordinator (West and Central Africa), Frontline Defenders
Nov 20: The Female Science Talents Intensive Track - Falling Walls, Consultancy at Plan International (Abuja) / Baseline of Country Strategy (FY2024 – FY2028), Africa Correspondent - The Economist, PhD or Postdoc within bioelectrochemical systems for wastewater treatment and resource recovery - Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Associate Director - BUILD Nigeria (Remote)
Nov 21: Partnership Manager - Brink (Remote), Future Leaders Programme 2024 (Marketing) - Diageo (Lagos), Future Leaders Programme 2024 (Commercial Graduate Trainee) - Diageo (Lagos), Future Leaders Programme 2024 (Supply Graduate Trainee) - Diageo (Lagos)
Nov 24: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program - United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa), Analyst Program - EMEA at BlackRock, Summer Internship Program - EMEA at BlackRock, Board Assistant - AfriLabs (Remote)
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