BREAKING NEWS:
UWC Receives Major Donation from Shelby Davis
** Introducing the new Davis-UWC Dare to Dream programme **

For UWC, the year 2018 is off to a fantastic start: Shelby Davis has just announced another major donation to UWC of at least 100 million USD! This gift is one of the most significant gifts ever made to a secondary educational institution.

Davis’ donation will be rolled out across the UWC movement through the new Davis-UWC “Dare to Dream” programme which will provide additional scholarship funding of 5 million USD per generation of UWC national committee-selected students, to be used for 100 additional scholarships each year.

In making this tremendous pledge, Shelby said: “UWC provides a unique education to students from across the world independent of their socio-economic means. Each year, UWC national committees identify promising young people in almost 160 countries to attend UWC schools and give them access to an international education they would otherwise never even dare to dream of. We need to equip a new generation to work towards a better world. The Dare to Dream scholarships recognise UWC’s capacity to do that and to bring together students from the most diverse backgrounds from around the globe. I hope it will encourage others to support UWC in eliminating a privileged socio-economic background as a prerequisite for world class education.”

The Dare to Dream scholarships will be granted to UWC’s national committees in recognition of the paramount role they play in enabling UWC to educate students from the most diverse backgrounds. Scholarships will be allocated to national committees successful in fundraising and outreach to diverse pools of candidates.

The Dare to Dream programme puts real momentum behind UWC’s strategic goal of ensuring meaningful socio-economic diversity across UWC as set out in the UWC Strategy: 2018 and Beyond, approved in October 2017. For more information about Dare to Dream and what it means for the UWC movement, please visit www.uwc.org/daretodream.

We are overjoyed, humbled, a bit speechless – and, especially, very grateful. Join us in saying THANK YOU to UWC’s wonderful patron Shelby Davis – as our students already did. Have a look here.

For the full story, read here.

Last week Leonora Kleiven and Joakim Janninge, staff from UWC Connect, visited Atlantic College to meet with their Outdoors Department to learn and share experiences of how to best develop outdoor activities and local outreach. Alongside the sharing they also got to participate in different activities, among them gorging. It was fun! Maybe it will be possible to find suitable rivers close to UWC RCN?

Santa Claus came early to Haugland this year. We have just got the good news that Gjensidige Foundation have granted UWC RCN 125,850NOK to be spent on dry suits for our kayaking and canoeing activities. We are really happy and grateful as this means we can have full year-round activity under the fjords for both students and visitors as well as more appropriate clothing for people with different disabilities, so everybody can participate on equal terms. Thank you Gjensidige Foundation!