Project Report
| May 22, 2018
Hegg Hoffet Grantee Continues Studies in the UK
By Stacy Dry Lara | GWI Executive Director
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the Graduate Women International Hegg Hoffet programme recently awarded one of our applicants the opportunity to register for the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme OSCE, Objective Structured Clinical Examination, Parts 1 and 2. Displaced from her home country of Palestine and for fear of prosecution, she sought asylum in the United Kingdom. Given the opportunity to take the OSCE exam in London she can now continue to pursue her legal profession. We are in close contact with her and she has expressed her sincere gratitude to GlobalGiving and the Graduate Women International Hegg Hoffet programme for this live-changing opportunity.
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Feb 20, 2018
Did You Know the GWI Hegg Hoffet Programme Began in 1936?
By Stacy Dry Lara | GWI Executive Director
Did you know that the Hegg-Hoffet Fund has been instrumental in providing help to refugee and displaced graduate women for over 82 years? The Hegg Hoffet Fund was established in 1936 as the International Federation of University Women (now Graduate Women International) Emergency Fund to help women at the graduate level and above who had been deprived of the right to work, and in many cases, the right to live in their native countries. Arriving in a new country, most face complex challenges to integration, among them language difficulties, unemployment, rejection of foreign qualifications and the need for retraining. Later called the Relief Fund, it took the name of Madame Blanche Hegg Hoffet (1894-1978) in 1968, to honour her many years of service during and after the Second World War.
Mme Hegg Hoffet was particularly responsible for raising money and distributing assistance in that difficult period and accomplished her mission with great passion and commitment, travelling regularly to Germany to meet with refugees as soon as the war ended.
Recently, the GWI Hegg Hoffet programme supported a SiSwati programme for a very deserving and fellow woman graduate. Support for such classes embodies the very mission of the GWI Hegg Hoffet program and we are ever-grateful to our donors.
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Nov 22, 2017
GWI Hegg Hoffet Supports Legal Practice Course
By Stacy Dry Lara | Executive Director
Founded in 1919, GWI's mission is to promote and advocate for the right to quality and safe lifelong education for girls and women at all levels, to advocate for the advancement of the status of girls and women, and to enable women and girls to apply their knowledge and skills in leadership and decision-making in all forms of public and private life.
To further this mission GWI offers the Hegg Hoffet fund that assists graduate women who have been displaced as a result of war, political upheaval or other serious emergencies. The Hegg Hoffet fund offers:
- refresher courses enabling re-entry into professional fields
- training courses leading to other employment
- language training
- other courses to assist with integration into the new country
Recently, GWI paid for a legal practice course for a young woman who had been relocated to the United Kingdom due to conflict her her home country. Support for such classes embodies the very mission of the GWI Hegg Hoffet program and we are ever-grateful to our donors.
With Gratitude!!
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