Scholarships, Internships and Fellowships
- $1,000 scholarship available to a Perry High School graduating female
- $3,000 scholarship to and new female student that will be attending Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio
- The Andi Foundation/NDI fellowship to work for NDI in Washington D.C. that will be given to a female from a country that NDI is working in. The fellowship is sponsored by NDI. For more information, download the application or visit www.ndi.org.
2015
recipient of the Andi Parhamovich Fellowship Maka Meshveliani pictured
below.
Maka
Meshveliani, a senior program officer at NDI Georgia, is the 2015 Andi
Parhamovich Fellow. She will use her time in NDI’s Washington office to design a
project to help women’s rights advocates in Georgia sharpen communication
tactics and strategies to mobilize public support around women’s political
empowerment.
As Maka was growing up, her parents encouraged her to speak up
and put forward her ideas and suggestions. She later came to understand,
however, that not every young woman was raised with the same encouragement. So
she's working to raise the political profile and create more opportunities for
women in Georgia. Maka has been in the forefront of efforts to help civic
organizations advance issues such as election reform and gender equality. She is
a leader of the Women’s Movement in Georgia, which was created in late 2014 and
unites more than 500 women from all over the country. Maka has also been a key
contributor to the Task Force on Women’s Political Participation, established
and facilitated by NDI, which unites all major local and international players
working on women’s political participation and has served as a platform for a
high-level advocacy. The fellowship will enable her to contribute to the
efficiency of both platforms upon her return to Georgia.
Maka leads the civil society
development component of NDI programs in Georgia, which focus on increasing the
influence of civil society organizations on government decision making. As the
main liaison on electoral programs at NDI Georgia (2007-2009, 2011-2013), Maka
managed NDI’s election observation program involving four domestic election
monitoring organizations. She also took an active role in the workings of
high-level NDI pre-election and Election Day international observation missions.
She holds a LLM degree in
international human rights law from the University of Essex (England) and
studied law at Tbilisi State University (BA degree with honors). She is the
winner of a number of awards and scholarships, including the Open Society
Institute-Chevening joint scholarship and the U.S. Department of State high
school exchange scholarship Future Leaders Exchange Program/FLEX
(2003).
For more information, please email:
info@theandifoundation.org
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