NGO chief wins prestigious award for helping girls go to school
By Sophie Edwards // 30 November 2023
Safeena Husain, the founder of the Indian charity Educate Girls — which works to get girls who are out of school into the classroom — has been awarded the WISE Prize for Education.
The $500,000 award was announced Monday during the two-day World Innovation Summit for Education, or WISE, Summit in Doha, Qatar, which brought together more than 2,000 educators.
The gathering marks the 11th WISE Summit, which takes place every two years and was founded by the Qatar Foundation. This year’s theme — “Creative Fluency: Human Flourishing in the Age of AI” — saw discussions around how artificial intelligence can be used to transform education systems and outcomes.
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Sophie Edwards
Sophie Edwards is a Devex Contributing Reporter covering global education, water and sanitation, and innovative financing, along with other topics. She has previously worked for NGOs, and the World Bank, and spent a number of years as a journalist for a regional newspaper in the U.K. She has a master's degree from the Institute of Development Studies and a bachelor's from Cambridge University.
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