Fund College Access for USAP Zimbabwe Students

August is an exciting month for us as we bid farewell to 26 USAP students on their way to university.  We are proud of this first cohort of Education Matters USAP students who have earned an impressive $5,857,516 in scholarships for their four years of study.   They are attending colleges in the United States, Canada, Rwanda and Ghana and pursing a wide range of academic interests.  

Thank you again for your generous contributions to the USAP Access Fund that have enabled these students' dreams to come true.  This Global Giving project has enabled us to purchase 13 airline tickets for those whose tickets were not funded by their universities or scholarships and pay for SEVIS immigration fees for 9 of them as well.   The funds have also enabled us to help a student get a passport who couldn't afford one and for several of these students to pay other incidental deposits and fees at their universities necessary for them to unleash their scholarships.  

Your contributions have also allowed us to finance our new cohort of 42 USAPers to write the SAT exam in May and though they had a short time to prepare, we are proud of their results.  We will need to continue to fundraise for this new cohort and look forward to communicating to you their successes over the next year. 

Here is a list of the colleges and universities this year's 26 USAP students on their way will be attending:

Africa Leadership University (3), Ashesi (2), Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cottey, Davidson, Harvard, Kalamazoo, Lafayette, Lander, Lehigh, Pomona, Reed, Sewanee, Smith, University of Pennsylvania (3), University of Southern Indiana, University of Toronto, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wellesley, Whitworth. 

We appreciate your continued support to the USAP Access Fund!