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Gender responsiveness impacts adolescent girls in Uganda

Gender responsiveness impacts adolescent girls in Uganda

Education of girls has always been a challenge in Uganda. In 2015, UNESCO reported that around 16.7 million girls are out of school in Sub-Saharan Africa while 9.3 million of them will never set foot…
STiR CEO Girish Menon named in Social Entrepreneur Index 2022

STiR CEO Girish Menon named in Social Entrepreneur Index 2022

We are very happy to share that our CEO Girish Menon has been included in the Social Entrepreneur Index 2022 curated by UMi. The Social Entrepreneur Index is about celebrating individuals who are bringing a…
Inspiring Conversations

Inspiring Conversations

At STiR Education, our mission is to reignite intrinsic motivation throughout the education system and role-model the foundations of lifelong learning. The key elements that influence intrinsic motivation are having a sense of autonomy, mastery…
New appointments to our Finance Committee

New appointments to our Finance Committee

STiR Education is pleased to announce the appointment of Deepa Sharma and Matthew Reeves as new members of our finance committee, effective from March 2021. Deepa is Humanitarian Business Operations Lead at Save the Children…
STiR holds first workshop in Ethiopia

STiR holds first workshop in Ethiopia

We are very excited to share the news of our first workshop in Ethiopia this week. This has been an important first step towards the launch of our activities in the country, and it has…
Year One Learning

Year One Learning

The 2018/19 school year has just finished or is soon to finish in all of our geographies. This article provides a review of how we are doing in relation to our 5-year progress pathway, shares…
Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review

“A good tennis player can play with a broom and still win their matches,” a former tennis coach once told me. Later I learned Roger Federer—in many minds, the most naturally gifted player of all…