Alumna Helps Secure $100 Million Grant to Educate Syrian Refugees
Sarah Smith ’92, senior director of education at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), has successfully secured a $100 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation for the Sesame Workshop & International Rescue Committee to provide early childhood education for Syrian refugees.
As the Foundation’s announcement explains, “Sesame Workshop and IRC will use the $100 million grant to implement an evidence-based, early childhood development intervention designed to address the ‘toxic stress’ experienced by children in the Syrian response region—Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria. The project will improve children's learning outcomes today and their intellectual and emotional development over the long term.”
Read more about the project here.
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Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135
Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
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