By Jim McKeown | Executive Director
Masinyusane's Girls' Scholarship Fund continues to provide life-changing opportunities to gifted young women from Port Elizabeth's townships, enabling them to access and succeed at University.
We currently have 228 girls enrolled at Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth. The government has drastically increased access to financial aid in 2019, enabling us to use your generosity to help the girls with more bus fare, food stipends, laptops, housing, workshoips and mentoring.
Most come from homes of abject poverty and this assistance is critical in enabling them to succeed at school. We are honored to play a roll in them realizing their potential in life and hope to share some excellent exam results in early December :)
We simultaneously have our High School team in all 35 township high schools identifying every girl that could potentially attend university in 2020. So far, we have just over 125 girls identified. We have submitted applications to 5 different universities for each of them, helped a few win scholarships already and are busy with all of their financial aid applications.
One by one, we are building a generation of female leaders in impoverished South African communities. Thank you for playing such an important role in making this happen!
Jim
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