{"id":960,"date":"2014-02-07T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/07\/amecea-cuea-seek-to-empower-african\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:41:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:41:06","slug":"amecea-cuea-seek-to-empower-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/07\/amecea-cuea-seek-to-empower-african\/","title":{"rendered":"AMECEA: CUEA Seek to  Empower African Sisters through Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CUEA-Logo-1024x958.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CUEA-Logo-1024x958.jpg\" height=\"186\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Catholic<br \/>\nUniversity of Eastern Africa (CUEA) &nbsp;is&nbsp; seeking<br \/>\nto empower African Sisters &nbsp;following the<br \/>\nSigning of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between CUEA and African Sisters<br \/>\nEducation Collaborative (ASEC)&nbsp; on 20th January 2014, at CUEA Lang\u2019ata Campus,<br \/>\nNairobi Kenya. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe MoU was<br \/>\nsigned by Msg. Dr. Pius Rutechura, Vice Chancellor, CUEA and Sr. Dr. Jane<br \/>\nWakahiu, the Executive Director of ASEC and Sisters Leadership Development<br \/>\nInitiative (SLDI) Project Manager. Also in attendance was Sr. Agnes Wamuyu,<br \/>\nExecutive Secretary of the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya (AOSK); ASEC<br \/>\ncoordinators from Kenya, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and<br \/>\nZambia. Others who attended the ceremony were the Administration of the CUEA,<br \/>\nstaff and students.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe signing<br \/>\nof the Framework becomes the starting point of the long way of partnership<br \/>\nbetween CUEA and ASEC which seeks to empower African Sisters to develop<br \/>\ncreative and innovative skills sets through higher education, so that they can<br \/>\nefficiently serve the society.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nASEC\u2019s<br \/>\nmission is to facilitate educational opportunities for women religious in<br \/>\nAfrica which will enable them to enhance and expand access to educational,<br \/>\nhealthcare, social and spiritual services for the people they serve. ASEC is a<br \/>\nnot-for-profit organization that has been in existence since 2006.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nUnder this<br \/>\nframework, five sisters joined CUEA this trimester for their studies, four in<br \/>\nthe Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and one in the Faculty of Commerce.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">SOURCE: CUEA Press<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) &nbsp;is&nbsp; seeking to empower African Sisters &nbsp;following the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}