News & Events

The African Focus Week presented a unique challenge for us all. For me in particular, I had never really had the opportunity to partake in such a meaningful sharing of culture.

Members of our Sustainability Committee (SustCo) and our Maqoor CAS, visited Masis Paper Recycling Farm, seeking information about pragmatic recycling and waste reduction mechanisms.

The school community mourns the passing of Eaint Kyawt Hmue, Class of 2020, whose life ended far too soon. Known to us as Joan, she was a Dare To Dream scholar and was selected on merit to receive the prestigious scholarship from Mr Shelby Davis, a UWC Patron. 

UWCD students raised 150,000 AMD for UNICEF during the UWC Day and 420,000 AMD as part of the Bald for a Cause fundraiser to benefit the City of Smile, an NGO dedicated to helping children with cancer.

Christian Moboko is a Rise Scholar and our second year student from Kenya who spent last summer in London attending the Rise Residential Summit. Here is his reflection on the time he spend in London attending the summit.

This is the story of the triumph of the UWC community coming together to help Seynabou Gorgui, our first-year student from Senegal.

Ibsa, our second-year student from Ethiopia, has finished working on a coding boot camp for high school students that was organised under his Tech01 Society. Read his story about this exciting initiative that opened up the world of coding for more than 30 students!

David is our DP1 student from Italy. David is one of the organisers of Fridays for Future - a youth-led global climate strike movement that started in August 2018. Together with other activists David organised six global strikes, bringing millions of people onto the streets of even the remotest places of Earth. In September a climate strike took place at UWC Dilijan.