Previous Organisations
Below is a summary of some of the work that organisations that have received GMCTF funds have undertaken.
Woman’s Educational Partnership
The Woman’s Education Partnership is a UK charity providing education for displaced and deprived women and girls in Sudan and South Sudan, many of whom have fled violence in their home regions. They deliver university scholarships for disadvantaged women, primary education for orphaned girls, adult literacy for women, and eyecare to correct reading problems.
The GMCTF has been sponsoring university students through our scholarship programme in Sudan since 2002. Over that time scores of young women have graduated through the GMCTF’s generous support, most of them from the Ahfad University for Women in Omdurman, Sudan. The GMCTF has given life-changing opportunities to all those women graduates who have gone on to serve their nation, communities and families.
Windle Trust
The Windle Trust’s mission is to challenge poverty and inequality by expanding access to, and improving the quality of, education and training for communities affected by conflict, displacement, neglect, or discrimination in Eastern Africa. They work with communities affected by, or recovering from, protracted internal conflict.
Epifania Keji is a South Sudanese refugee student in the Sudan supported by the Windle Trust. She is in her final year studying management at Ahfad University for Women. As a refugee, Epifania worked hard just to continue with her education as she was brought up by a single mother, the only one taking care of her and her siblings. Through doing casual work in Khartoum, she was able to join university. However, she could not sustain working and studying at the same time. She had this to tell Windle Trust:
“My economic situation was too bad since I was raised by a single mother. Paying the university fees was one of the great challenges I had faced. I found it really difficult to pay the tuition fees. Therefore, I had to go to the university regarding my tuition fees. Luckily, I got a 70% discount for my tuition fees.”
She then said that her next challenge was where to stay, having no family in Khartoum was one of the great challenges she had faced. A friend of hers told her about a Windle Trust International hostel near Ahfad University. She immediately applied for this opportunity and she was accepted at Peace hostel, where other refugee students were also staying. She is grateful for this opportunity, and added that:
“If I didn’t get the chance of staying in the hostel, honestly I will be homeless.”
She went on to say that the hostel is accommodating a lot of people with circumstance as hers and they are really thankful to the Windle Trust International and Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund for their support.