Futures,
unlocked.
We walk alongside the brightest learners from Gqeberha's townships, from a high-school classroom to a university degree to a career that lifts their whole family out of poverty.
What happens when you flood a township with graduates? We are going to find out.
Every graduate is a cycle of poverty broken. 505 lives changed. 505 families lifted. A generation of young leaders returning to uplift their own families, solve their own communities' problems, and show the next child exactly what is possible.
MSc Applied Mathematics
Meet Aphiwe.
From the deep rural areas of the former Transkei, this former herdboy is now well on his way to a PhD. Having lost his brother and his father, he credits his family for their support, and he now works in Africa’s richest square mile, Sandton, for the corporate powerhouse Altron Digital Business.
“Graduation has not only landed me a job, it has expanded my network, with many organisations looking to collaborate with me to develop this country for the better.”Read more graduate stories
in Applied Mathematics, with a PhD next
to a corporate role in Sandton
Digital Business, Johannesburg
The road to 500, and well beyond.
In 2015 we counted our graduates on one hand. The line has bent upward every year since.
Explore the data →university graduates, and counting
of our communities hold a university degree. Our graduates are that 1%.
of our learners now apply to university correctly and on time, up from 14%.
From a township classroom
to a career.
A scholarship is the headline, but it is only one stop on a much longer road. We walk every step of it with our students, for up to a decade.
High School
We find the brightest learners across Gqeberha’s township high schools and get them university-ready, the part the system leaves to chance.
University
Once they are in, we remove every reason they might have to drop out, so the only thing left to focus on is the degree.
Every learner holds a full Masinyusane scholarship and a place to live at our Houses of Excellence.
Graduation
A degree in hand, and the practical skills to turn it into a livelihood rather than another job queue.
Employment
A career that lifts a whole family out of poverty, and a living example to the next child of exactly what is possible.
The proof is in the graduates.
“As the first family graduate, it meant the world; not just any graduate, but an Engineering graduate, amongst the first few females to actually finish the degree. I have opened portals in my life I never thought I had.”
Babalwa Otola
Marine Engineering
The first graduate in her family, and among the first women to finish the degree.
Houses of
Excellence.
Many of our students would otherwise commute hours each day, or study in crowded homes with no quiet, no desk, and no food. Our Houses of Excellence give them something rare: a safe, free place to live and eat, surrounded by peers chasing the very same goal.
They became my second family and gave me a home away from home.
The Girls
Scholarship Fund.
Young women do more to lift their families and communities out of poverty, and are handed far fewer chances to do it. So we invest in them deliberately, sending talented young women into Engineering, Science, Accounting and Law, and watching them become a generation of leaders.
Being a woman in a male-dominated space added an extra layer of challenge. But no dream is too big when you are willing to fight for it.
Send the next one
to university.
Your gift covers tuition, food, transport, mentoring, and a safe place to live, everything a brilliant young person needs to become a graduate. And we will show you the data that proves it works.
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