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  1. Dylan Hrycyshen

    Girl Power

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    Above Photo: Benedicta of Create Change in Ghana hosts a parent/teacher meeting to reinforce the importance of attendance in the classroom. Especially during harvest when many students are forced to stay home and help with family chores. Education Generation strives to recognize organizations that teach education differently.  While an innovative...
  2. Dylan Hrycyshen

    Educate! Curriculum for a Nation

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    Educate! is built with an innovative view for education.  This is needed when Uganda, Educate!’s host country faces a unique set of problems including but not limited to, poverty, disease, and violence.  The country has a population of roughly 50% of its people under the age of 15.  As a...
  3. Dylan Hrycyshen

    Condor Trust Students to Graduate

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    We’re celebrating Condor Trust, in Quito Ecuador as Gaby Solis and Fatima Andrade became the first two students supported by the program to finish their University degrees! Gaby and Fatima both studied International Trade, and have already landed highly sought after jobs with the National Customs and Excise office in...
  4. Christina Wu

    Sean Pledges His Birthday to EdGen

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    We were thrilled when Sean Peters decided to pledge his birthday towards Education Generation. Sean raised enough funds to support two students from Uganda who are going to school via the Educate! program. He shared a little bit about his EdGen birthday experience. Thanks Sean! I decided to support EdGen...
  5. Dylan Hrycyshen

    Recruiting Our 2013 Fellows

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    Want to be a change maker, and make a lasting difference for a deserving community? Education Generation works directly with our field partners in communities around the globe, sharing a passion for change and community progression.  Education is a key factor in developing sustainable communities.  EdGen sees this as the...
  6. Dylan Hrycyshen

    Birthday Campaign Thanks x2

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    The New Year is here, hopefully with all your resolutions still on track.  As we celebrate the birth of the New Year, we’re reminded to thank those who have supported Education Generation with birthdays of their own.  Dedicating their big day, our EdGen birthday’ers trade presents for scholarships, supporting students...
  7. Shawn

    Double Your Donation – Holiday Matching Campaign!

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    Looking for a last minute Xmas gift? Why not donate to an EdGen student on behalf of a loved one AND get your donation matched! Education Generation has received the perfect Christmas present this week, with an offer from an anonymous donor to MATCH all scholarship donations up to $5000...
  8. Dylan Hrycyshen

    Thanks be to Ghana

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    A deep breathe in the cold air freezes as I inhale upon landing in my hometown of Regina Saskatchewan.  Twenty-seven hours of flight time and a 45 degree Celsius temperature change leaves me dazed as a flashbang to my new territory.  Blinking with dry eyes, I spot the reds, yellows...
  9. Dylan Hrycyshen

    View from the Top of Ghana

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    Clouds part high above the African grasslands letting in rays of sunshine one by one.   The air is misty, wet with a cool touch, feeding the jungle and the village of Berekuso Ghana below.  The vertical heights of the village tower above the low lying backdrop of Accra miles away. ...