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2020 a YEAR LIKE NO OTHER 2020 Welcome a YEAR LIKE NO OTHER 2020 A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER 2020 Welcome A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER PRESIDENT OF UWC HM Queen Noor of Jordan The central credo of UWC’s founder, Kurt crisis, from racial and other injustices to INDEX Hahn, rang particularly true in 2020: COVID-19 response. UWC INTERNATIONAL BOARD “There is more in us than we know. If we As of 1 January 2021 could be made to see it; perhaps, for the What this year has made clearer than Welcome 2 rest of our lives we will be unwilling to ever is that we are needed. An education Dr Musimbi Kanyoro Marco Provencio settle for less.” that empowers forward-looking, Looking Back on 2020: Chair of the Board, Chair of Committee for the compassionate and resilient individuals Reflections of a 3 Chair of Personnel and Governance of the National There had to be more in us than we from all cultures, countries and social UWC East Africa Pioneer Dr Musimbi Kanyoro Remuneration Committee Committee System Chair, UWC International Board knew: as a global organisation with backgrounds, is needed to rise above the school communities drawn from all challenges we could not have imagined Who We Are Pål Brynsrud Dr Maria Inês Kavamura parts of the world, UWC was deeply just one year ago. Vice-Chair of the Board, Chair of International affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our Vision 4 Chair of Nominating and Development Committee But that was not all. The situation We are so thankful to stand together Our Approach 4 Governance Committee in Hong Kong and the Nagorno- with you in our pursuit. The partnerships Mariana Arrobas Karabakh conflict presented unique that we formed and continued to Our Global Reach 5 Aram Rabadi Vice-Chair of Committee of challenges to two of our schools. cultivate this year enable us to provide Interim Vice-Chair of the National Committees The Black Lives Matter movement, a UWC education to ever more diverse 2020: Rising Committee of the National meanwhile, reminded us all that even an young people, so that they can unite to the Challenge Committees Dr Victoria Mora Dr Quique Bassat organisation like ours, built on uniting with their communities to build a future President of UWC-USA Chair, UWC International Council people and celebrating diversity, has with sustainability, justice, solidarity My 2020 With UWC 6 Carma Elliot to practice critical self-reflection in and peace at its core. Beyond the crucial College President, UWC Veronika Zonabend the fight against racism in all its forms. scholarships that our donors provide Rising To New Challenges 7 South East Asia Founder and Chair of UWC 2020 was about working through are the opportunities our partnerships Dilijan these challenges and about identifying engender to stretch our impact even Rising To New Prominence 8 Colin Habgood opportunities in adversity. And indeed further. In 2020, this included growing Our Students in 2020 9 Treasurer, Jane Foster we did “find more in us than we knew” the number of educational offerings for Chair of Finance and Audit Special UWC International and we made it through the year far refugee students in partnership with Rise, Our Education in 2020 10 Committee Board Representative on better than could have been expected. an initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Safeguarding Rhodes Trust, alongside building bridges Impacting 2020 Dr Christian Hodeige In this Annual Review you will learn of mutual understanding in Cyprus with Jens Waltermann Permanent Proxy Chair of about how UWC rose to the challenges support from the European Commission, COVID-19 12 Executive Director, UWC Robert Bosch College, UWC International of 2020. You will read about how the and more. We thank you for enabling The Environment 13 Chair of College Chairs’ With special thanks to the UWC community overcame great us to plant seeds of change in more Committee UWC International Board hurdles, eventually bringing almost all of communities around the world. Anti-Racism 14 members who supported our 11,000 students from 158 countries Driek Desmet UWC through 2020: back on our campuses to live and learn And change is possible. As we saw in The Refugee Crisis 15 Chair of Community together. It is the continued generosity 2020, both within the world of UWC Grappling with Conflict 16 Engagement Committee Nicole Severino of our partners and donors, and the and beyond, seemingly insurmountable Vice-Chair of Committee of monumental shared effort of UWC barriers can be overcome. Support in 2020 Gabriel Abad Fernandez the National Committees families, staff, volunteers and friends, Head of UWC Dilijan, who made this possible. So Kurt Hahn was right: now is the time With Gratitude 17 Chair of College Heads’ Peter Howe to stretch further, to dream bigger, and Committee Principal of UWC Atlantic, Students become alumni, and UWC to take action to shape a better post- Partner Spotlight: 18 Chair of College Heads’ alumni go on to impact the world. Within COVID future for all. Let us grasp 2021 Shelby Davis and Phil Geier Laura Carone Committee this Annual Review, you will see how as a new starting point and inspire a new Partner Spotlight: Chair of Committee of the our graduates brought their grit, skills generation to strive for more. 19 Kjartan Björnsson National Committees Tove Veierød and multi-layered perspectives to the Special UWC International key areas deserving all of our attention, We look forward to making this journey Fundraising Spotlight: 20 Tez Steinberg Lin Kobayashi Board Representative on from the refugee crisis to the climate together with you. Chair of UWC ISAK Japan Safeguarding 2 Looking back on 2020: Reflections of a UWC East Africa Pioneer My name is Peter Makuei. I started my challenging to continue with online studies UWC journey one year ago, as part of the due to limited internet and power supply first group of UWC students (pioneers) at access at the settlement, but with the UWC East Africa. Before that, I was born support from CAREDUCA Foundation all and grew up in South Sudan, a nation went well and I successfully completed my that has been prone to wars. It was of no first of the two-year programme. surprise that I was finally forced out of the country during the 2013 civil war. I 2020 has not been an easy year for anyone Pandemic or no pandemic - the experience I Peter Makuei sought asylum in Uganda as a refugee at - and it has contributed further challenges have so far had here with my UWC East Africa South Sudan UWC East Africa, 2019-2021 Kiryandongo refugee settlement, a place to refugee communities. This is why I believe family has been amazing, from the social that has been my home ever since. that this year’s World Refugee Day theme is diversity to the beautiful environment and the so important: ‘Every Action Counts’ calls for hospitality of the Tanzanians that makes it the As a refugee child, life was full of surprises, everyone in their own capacity to help refugee best home away from home. As the pioneer especially where my education journey populations. For me this meant starting generation of UWC East Africa we were also was concerned. I found out about UWC with small steps. When I returned to the able to play a big part in shaping this school as scholarships at a time when I was faced settlement during the pandemic I set about a UWC. We do believe that we have a huge role with the possibility that I might not be able translating the World Health Organisation to play in setting the legacy that future UWC to complete my final two years of high COVID-19 guidelines into local languages students will follow. Recently, we summited the school: few schools in the region offered that people there would understand. Once highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, this, and none inside the settlement could. I graduate from UWC East Africa in six as a way of showing future students that it months time, I would like to go back to the is doable. The teamwork we display in and It was the UWC mission itself that inspired settlement again and set up a project that will outside the classroom makes us stick together. me to apply for this opportunity to realise help reduce disease outbreak through proper Even during the pandemic we stayed in touch my dreams and work together with my waste disposal by constructing at least one via Zoom calls. friends to make the world a better place for latrine in each cluster. everyone, by recognising our differences And we are here - a young generation of and learning how to live together amidst These plans are important to me because changemakers ready to solve the world’s these differences. I applied through the from the day I arrived at UWC East Africa problems. Our ability to collaborate with one UWC Ugandan National Committee and my life has not been the same. I have another and come up with common objectives fortunately I got accepted: I am now a met friends that have become part of gives me hope that we shall overcome the happy second-year student and member of my life and my hope that was lost has future challenges that our global community the great UWC East Africa community. now been restored with this novel gift of will face. Education. I am thankful to CARECUDA This same mission has carried me through for making my dream of attaining an I hope you will enjoy reading in this Annual the added challenges of being a first-year international education possible.
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