Hello Fellow!

We're thrilled to welcome you to the WomEng Southern Africa Fellowship 2023! Your journey with us promises
to be an exciting and transformative one, and we're delighted to have you on board.

This Welcome Pack is designed to provide you with essential information about the program, guide you on
what to expect, and help you navigate your way through the fellowship. Please keep this Welcome Pack
handy as a reference throughout the program. We encourage you to engage actively in the modules,
assignments, and networking opportunities, as they will be key to your personal and professional growth
throughout the year.

Once again, welcome to the WomEng Southern Africa Fellowship 2023. We look forward to a rewarding
and successful time ahead!

Programme Overview
WomEng Southern Africa Fellowship is a leadership, innovation, well-being, and employability programme
for the best and brightest female students in engineering, technology, and the built environment to find
solutions to global challenges while developing and preparing for the industry. WomEng Fellows are
equipped with critical skills for the future of work and skills for entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship within
the engineering and technology industry. WomEng is creating diversity in the engineering and technology
industry.

WomEng Southern Africa Fellowship 2023 is an online programme, meaning materials and tools will be
supplied to Fellows to learn in their own space and time. This will be supplemented with regular online chats
via WhatsApp and live tutorials on Zoom. Sixty (60) delegates (hereon referred to as fellows) are to
participate in the online programme. The programme will be run in modules between September 2023 –
December 2023 with an assignment and feedback required from fellows at the end of each module.
Modules to be covered over the course of this programme include:

Module 1: Leadership Now - Unlocking Your Story and Style

Module 2: Innovation – Developing Skills for the Future of Work
Module 3: Employability – Thriving in the Workplace

Our Fellows are full-time female engineering, built environment or technology students currently studying at a
university or university of technology in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa.
About WomEng
WomEng is a multi-award-winning social enterprise developing high-skilled girls and women for the engineering
and technology industries. Founded in South Africa in 2006, WomEng works internationally, developing targeted
programmes and interventions to address the severe shortage of women in engineering. Beyond the focus on
increasing the numbers through a proactive and needs driven approach, WomEng programming is creating
the next generation of female engineering leaders in society.

WomEng has worked beyond only building female talent pipelines but has started to build entrepreneurship
and innovation challenges to raise the opportunity of entrepreneurship within the engineering and tech
industry.

Beyond these skills it is important for girls and women to have mentorship and leadership development
opportunities to create a virtuous cycle of women participating in STEM fields.
About De Beers Group
De Beers Group is the world’s leading diamond company, with expertise in diamond exploration, mining,
grading, marketing, and retail. Together with their joint venture partners, they employ more than 20,000
people across the global diamond pipeline, with many of these people in our source countries of Botswana,
Canada, Namibia, and South Africa.

The De Beers Group is passionate about diamonds and where they come from. They believe in the
protection of the natural world, and to ensure their diamonds give back to the communities where they are
discovered, helping them to thrive. The De Beers Group are leaders in pioneering solutions to ensure their
diamonds are responsibly and ethically sourced, and in doing so are driving positive change for the whole
industry.

Their commitment is called Building Forever; it is a holistic and integrated approach for creating a better
future for people and the planet.
This journey map is here to give you more of an in-depth view of how the program will run. It spans from the very
first welcome to the final assessment. Please be sure to follow along as we move through the tasks and be sure
you are on track.

Completion Certificate Criteria:

☑ Submission of at least 2 out of the 3 module assignments
☑ Submission of Final Assignment due 14 December 2023
☑ Completion of final feedback survey
Congratulations once again on being selected for the WomEng Southern Africa Fellowship. We invite you to
spread the word about your selection and participation by posting on social media and tagging us.

Programme themes
There will be themes running through the programme. After each module, we will select a theme and you
will need to do a short video or write just a little paragraph detailing your experience and telling us what it
means to you. Please make use of the hashtags so that we can see your videos! Use #WomEngSAF2023.

• Module 1 - To Be Bold and Courageous

• Module 2 - Imagineering the Future
• Module 3 - Thriving in the Workplace

Social media handles

WomEng:

@WomEng WomEng

@_WomEng WomEng

De Beers Group:

@debeersgroup @DeBeersGroupOfCompanies

@debeersgroup De Beers Group

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Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Engineering
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Witwatersrand College Science and Technology
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