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Women's Voices

Women's Voices

Women’s Voices Kicks Off New Year

Jan 30, 2024
The student-led group, Women’s Voices, has been a staple at UCBC for the past nine years. The group was created to champion women in leadership, promote gender equality, and celebrate personal achievements both on and off campus. Women’s Voices also collaborates with Bethesda Counseling Center to host positive masculinity workshops, encouraging dialogue with men to […]

Women’s Voices Kicks Off New Year

by Meredith Benson

The student-led group, Women’s Voices, has been a staple at UCBC for the past nine years. The group was created to champion women in leadership, promote gender equality, and celebrate personal achievements both on and off campus. Women’s Voices also collaborates with Bethesda Counseling Center to host positive masculinity workshops, encouraging dialogue with men to […]

Expanding Women’s Influence Requires More Than An Education

Apr 16, 2020
Like the rest of the world, we are learning together about what gender equality means and how we all play a part in achieving it. For many women in Congo, just getting to study at a university seems like an impossible dream. But what we have learned at UCBC is that just providing education isn’t enough to support women’s equal access to jobs, influence, and achievement of their dreams. They also need to know that their community will support them enough to take risks required for growth. Both men and women are necessary to make this happen.... Read More →

Expanding Women’s Influence Requires More Than An Education

by Justin Hubbard

Like the rest of the world, we are learning together about what gender equality means and how we all play a part in achieving it. For many women in Congo, just getting to study at a university seems like an impossible dream. But what we have learned at UCBC is that just providing education isn’t enough to support women’s equal access to jobs, influence, and achievement of their dreams. They also need to know that their community will support them enough to take risks required for growth. Both men and women are necessary to make this happen…. Read More →

Alumni Spotlight: Juliette Mali

Apr 3, 2018
What did four years at l’Université Chrétienne Bilingue du Congo (UCBC) mean for Juliette Kavugho Mali (’14)? The youngest of three girls...... Read More →

Alumni Spotlight: Juliette Mali

by Justin Hubbard

What did four years at l’Université Chrétienne Bilingue du Congo (UCBC) mean for Juliette Kavugho Mali (’14)? The youngest of three girls…… Read More →

Linda Musavuli

Nov 9, 2016
When Linda Kasali Musavuli first moved to Beni, she did not plan to study at UCBC. After attending secondary school in the big city and capital, Kinshasa, she could not imagine leaving the larger universities of the city for a young university in the town of Beni. In fact, she wanted to study some day […]

Linda Musavuli

by Justin Hubbard

When Linda Kasali Musavuli first moved to Beni, she did not plan to study at UCBC. After attending secondary school in the big city and capital, Kinshasa, she could not imagine leaving the larger universities of the city for a young university in the town of Beni. In fact, she wanted to study some day […]