Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025
Women’s Education Partnership (WEP) is excited to take part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025. It is a match-funded campaign which means that donors have the value of their donations doubled from our match-funds pot. We are grateful to Coles- Medlock Foundation for contributing to the match-funds.
The campaign runs for a week from midday Tuesday 2 December until midday Tuesday 9 December. So, in order to double the value of your donation you must donate during that time period and you must use the ‘DONATE’ button which leads to the Big Give site.
WEP focuses on providing education to the most disadvantaged women and girls in Sudan and South Sudan.
In South Sudan our programmes pay the fees and living expenses enabling young women to take higher education courses in healthcare, midwifery and rural development, and to pay the fees of women taking adult education and literacy courses.
Sudan is wracked by a terrible civil war which has prevented us running our normal programmes there. Nevertheless, we are helping Sudanese refugee women and girls in Egypt (at a secondary school in Cairo) and we provide English language courses for refugee undergraduates unable to study in Sudan. Please donate to help our vital educational programmes in South Sudan and Sudan.
Thank you.
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Women’s Education Partnership continues to support disadvantaged women through education despite the devastation of war in Sudan. We remain committed to funding projects, with our focus shifting more towards South Sudan.
Power to the Powerless through Education
Women’s Education Partnership has been funding educational projects in Sudan and what is now South Sudan, since 1999. Our mission is to improve the lives of women and children, with a particular focus on those from marginalised areas, those experiencing displacement and those will no other support.
In Sudan and South Sudan, literacy rates are significantly lower for women than men. Indeed, many women, displaced through civil unrest or economic hardship, may have had no education at all. Our aim is to empower disadvantaged women so that they may lead better lives. We do this through three main targeted aims:<
– To develop literacy and training programmes<
– To support education programmes to prepare women for higher education<
– To fund university scholarships for women<