FAWE's Director of Projects in Sierra Leone Visits Norwalk

Eileen Hanciles, director of the Federation of African Women Educationalists (FAWE)’s projects in Sierra Leone, joined Grace Church’s Sierra Leone project committee for dinner at the home of parishioner Eugenia Chinsman on February 27, 2007.

Ms. Hanciles described the origins of FAWE and the organization’s mission to educate girls and young women throughout Africa. She spoke of the group’s progress in changing cultural biases against educating girls and women throughout the continent and described the specific work underway at the Junior Secondary School for Girls in Waterloo, Sierra Leone.

The members of our project committee - Eugenia Chinsman, Pat Neil, Gay King, Kathy Dies, Doris Ash, John Sutton, and Lois Keen - then presented Ms. Hanciles with $3,300, the first installment of money raised by Grace Church for the Waterloo School Project.