Students who joined Amala to finish school are now running organisations that deliver courses to hundreds of young people across Kenya, Nigeria & South Sudan.
Community-led education, driven by alumni. This is the full story: www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/ex...
2025 was a year of significant growth at Amala.
2486 learners took part in our programmes - that's thousands of young people developing skills and opening up opportunities for more hopeful futures.
Read the full 2025 Impact Report: www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/am...
Mohammad was a month away from his final exams when he was forced to flee his home in Syria. He joined the first ever cohort of the Amala Global Secondary Diploma in Amman, Jordan and developed skills that he still uses today, resettled in the USA and working in tech.
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Amala Education is seeking an inspiring Chair of the Board of Trustees to help steer our next phase of growth.
If you are excited by the chance to be part of shaping the future of refugee education at a global level, you can find all the details here: app.nurole.com/roles/692823...
Hasan, Amala's Programme Coordinator in Jordan and Amala alumnus, underlining the transformative power of education from the #refugeeforum in Geneva! 👏📢
Just 24 hours left to take part in Amala's Big Give Christmas Challenge! Our innovative programmes reach young women like Grace who thought education was over, enabling them to build hope again.
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27%.
That’s how many girls living as refugees are in secondary school.
Amala programmes change this, offering young women like Hamdi flexible and supportive learning.
Can you join us this week to reach even more young people?
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Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community, we’ve smashed our fundraising target!
The need is still urgent: only 27% of refugee girls are in secondary school. With your support, we can keep building brighter futures together.
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Many students, like Lydia, join Amala after thinking education was over for them. Our programmes help rediscover what’s possible.
Help more young people living in displacement build hopeful futures with us through the Big Give this week.
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Education changes everything for refugee women and girls.
Like Saido, who found her path at Amala and now supports others through TechniKam.
Until 9 Dec, every donation to Amala is doubled through @biggive.bsky.social. Help us reach more women like Saido. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Education interrupted by war. Constant challenges at Kakuma Refugee Camp. Amala alumnus Bruno was determined not to let this define him. At Amala, Bruno found community, filmmaking, and the confidence to make change.
Read Bruno's story on our blog. www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/br...
🌟 Just a week to go until the
@biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge kicks off! 🌟
Here, our Jordan educators tell you more about how you can double your impact next week and be part of reaching refugee girls, women and youth through transformative education.
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Amala is joining the Big Give Christmas Challenge!
For refugee youth, education is a lifeline. From 2-9 Dec, we're aiming to raise £10,000 to enable more girls, women and young people living in displacement to learn with Amala.
Save the date 📆https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006OtskYAC
A look into the Amala learning community in Amman!
This impact has been made possible through the collective support of the Kahane Foundation, Grieg Foundation, the Horizon Foundation, and individual donors — enabling refugee youth in Jordan to shape their futures.
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Amala is looking for a Governance Clerk to support our Board of Trustees and committees. If you’re detail-oriented, organised, and passionate about good governance and education, we’d love to hear from you.
Learn more about the role and apply by 21 November: www.amalaeducation.org/work-with-us
At 15, Daniel joined Amala, eager to learn. Now he’s leading Kakuma Climate Action, an initiative to combat extreme heat, create livelihoods, and transform Kakuma Refugee Camp through tree-planting.
Read his story: www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/da...
Today is World Youth Skills Day! 🎉
Amala will be joining Global Schools Forum to explore what upskilling looks like for young people in conflict and refugee settings.
📅 Wednesday 16 July 2025
🕑 8.00am EST | 12.00pm GMT |3.00pm EAT | 5.30 pm IST
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Our latest newsletter will be hitting inboxes soon - sign up today to read about the growth of our Global Secondary Diploma, the stories of alumni who are turning ideas into impact, and much more - including our brand new film about Amala.
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Through our Social Entrepreneurship course, Amala alumnus Kocho discovered a widespread need for affordable soap in Kakuma Refugee Camp, so he launched a soapmaking project which, through the course received seed funding and now serves 40 regular customers. www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/so...
We are #recruiting! Join Amala, an ambitious international non-profit, as our newly created Head of Fundraising, and play a pivotal role in achieving our bold 2024-2027 strategy to triple our impact.
👉 Find out more and apply by 30 May: www.amalaeducation.org/work-with-us
Our newest graduates - 52 young people in #Kakuma Camp, Kenya and Jordan recently completed their Global Secondary Diploma, the first secondary education programme in the world designed with and for refugee youth. What makes an Amala graduation so special? 👉 www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/gs...
Our newest Global Secondary Diploma students have just started at Amala in Amman! Their first courses are Ethical Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship: learning to lead and design projects for social good. Learn more about Amala's innovative GSD: amalaeducation.org/diploma-prog...
Amala students go on to pursue all kinds of pathways, from peacebuilding to tech to the arts. Like Qais, who, after graduating from our Global Secondary Diploma in 2022, followed his passion for photography and video to art school in Strasbourg. www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/qa...
Meet Barnaba, Amala alumnus and founder of Teach for Community in Kakuma Camp. After conflict in Sudan disrupted his education, he found Amala, and now uses what he learned to equip women and youth with digital and entrepreneurship skills.
Read more: www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/barnabas-story
Last week, Amala's Global Team joined our Kenya team in Kakuma Camp, meeting alumni, students, partners and celebrating our graduating students. Our Director of Education Programmes has written a blog reflecting on the Amala "ecosystem" and impact. Read it here! ⬇️
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Last week, at the CIS Middle East Institute, Amala led a discussion on expanding higher education access for refugee students in the MENA region. With only 7% of refugees accessing higher education, Amala's transformative programmes open up pathways, enabling young people to shape their own futures.
Girls’ education has long-lasting impacts: the ripples extend farther than the eye can see.
Girls empowered by education positively impact...
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🌏 & the world!
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Six cohorts. Countless journeys. One Amala community.
Since 2020, hundreds of Global Secondary Diploma students have walked through Amala’s doors in Amman.
And as we prepare to welcome our seventh cohort of students in Jordan, our alumni reflect on Amala: www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/si...
Originally from Sudan, Amala alumnus Omar arrived in Kakuma camp in 2014. Fast forward to today, he's helping to equip young people who've dropped out of school with digital skills, teaching everything from email writing to social media. Read Omar's story: www.amalaeducation.org/news-blog/om...
Amala is looking for our next cohort of Global Secondary Diploma students in Amman, Jordan!
But what is the Global Secondary Diploma? And what do our alumni say about it?
Find out more about the programme and apply on our website before 1 March 2025.
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