The Washington Center / Coca-Cola Foundation

Africa Initiative Fall 2005 Fellowship Awards

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, in strategic partnership with The Coca-Cola Foundation, is proud to announce the fall 2005 recipients of The Washington Center’s Africa Initiative Fellowship for students from Sub-Saharan Africa. The fully-funded fellowships, allowing students from Sub-Saharan Africa to participate in professional and leadership training in Washington, D.C., are made possible by a grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation.

The Africa Initiative Fellowship recipients for fall 2005 are: Florence Attah of Nigeria, Wendy Nimako-Boateng of Ghana, and Bontsi Morewane of Botswana. Attah received her B.S. (with honors) in health education from the University of Lagos, in Lagos, Nigeria. She is interning at the Environmental Protection Agency. Nimako-Boateng is currently majoring in political science at the University of Ghana, in Legon, Ghana. She is interning in the office of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Morewane received her B.A. in French and English from the University of Botswana, in Gaborone, Botswana. She is interning at Oxfam America.

“The brief but thorough glimpse of what the next few weeks were going to entail brought home more firmly to me the fact that this was indeed going to be an exciting, as well as involving, internship, during which I would have to work hard on all levels: academically, professionally, socially, emotionally, in order to achieve the expected results.” – Wendy Nimako-Boateng, Office of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA).

"The Washington Center is thrilled to partner with The Coca-Cola Foundation in this effort to enhance the well-being of individuals and societies in Sub-Saharan Africa. And, it is exciting to have such highly qualified students participate in our programs," said Arleen Ramirez Borysiewicz, senior vice president at The Washington Center. "These are future leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We are privileged to provide them with professional and leadership training at this stage of their academic development, and grateful to The Coca-Cola Foundation for providing the funding to make this possible. These students contribute vibrancy to our community of scholars.”

"I know these talented students from Africa are making the most of this unique experience, and The Coca-Cola Foundation is pleased to be able to support them and other programs of The Washington Center," said Ingrid Saunders Jones, chairperson for The Coca-Cola Foundation. "We believe that education is a fundamental means to help individuals reach their full potential. That is why over the last decade our Foundation has provided more than $134 million in support of education and youth development."

The recipients of the Africa Initiative Fellowship were chosen by competitive selection, from a highly qualified applicant pool representing nations and universities all across Sub-Saharan Africa. The Washington Center / Coca-Cola Foundation Africa Initiative fellows receive experiential training through prestigious internship placements. They also participate in rigorous academic training provided by The Washington Center, and in a broad variety of lectures, embassy visits, small group discussions, and other cultural, academic, and professional and leadership training experiences. They will develop skills and knowledge they will put to use in their home countries, as professionals in their public policy fields.

Fall 2005 Africa Initiative Fellowship recipients received an award valued at approximately $13,000 per student. These funds cover The Washington Center’s tuition and housing, miscellaneous fees such as health insurance, and the majority of round-trip airfare costs associated with each student’s travel from her home nation to Washington, DC. Recipients are also provided a living expense stipend to help cover food and local transportation costs during their program in Washington.

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For more information, contact:

Joe Mancuso
The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
Telephone: 202-336-7565

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars is an independent, nonprofit educational organization founded in 1975. Its mission is to prepare college and university students for civic leadership through experiential education. In this way, The Washington Center seeks to promote future leadership for the public, private and nonprofit sectors of society. It has served more than 34,000 students from over 1000 colleges and universities. Visit our website at www.twc.edu.

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