Deadline: February 10, 2013
The Roth Family Foundation has granted 10 fellowships in e-education for West-African women in subjects related to Environmental Science, Municipal Water and Infrastructure, Water Management or Water Science and Engineering.
The role of water collection in developing countries predominately falls to women and girls, who can spend hours each day walking miles to collect water from unprotected sources. The tragedy is that the water that they work so hard to collect is often dirty, polluted and unsafe to drink, coming from rivers, ponds or simply holes in the ground. In urban areas, women either have to walk long distances to collect water, use polluted sources such as factory outlets or buy expensive water from vendors.
UNESCO-IHE believes in stimulating women empowerment in water and sanitation for the poor through training a future generation of women water leaders.
FELLOWSHIP ELIGIBILITY
You can apply for a Roth Family Foundation fellowship if you fit the following criteria:
- You are a female;
- You are a national of and living in one of the following West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone or Togo;
- You will send an elaborate motivation letter by email;
- You are willing to fill out a short survey if awarded a fellowship.
Please note that all 2013 online courses are eligible for a Roth Family Foundation fellowship.
The deadline to apply for a fellowship is Sunday 10 February 2013 23:59 GMT+1.
- Go to this online course page and click on the online course of your interest. On the course specific website, you will find on the online application form: ‘Click here to apply for this course’.
- On the form, one of the questions is: ‘Why do you wish to follow this course?‘ To indicate you wish to apply for a Roth Family Foundation fellowship, please start your text with the word ROTH.
- Send an email to onlinecourse(at)unesco-ihe.org stating your name, the course you applied for and mention your wish to apply for a Roth Family Foundation fellowship.
- We request you to attach to the email an elaborate motivation letter (400 words max.) indicating how the grant will make a difference in your community, neighborhood or population. Furthermore, please go into detail about your reasons to participate in this specific online course.
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