By Jim McKeown | Executive Director
Hi everyone,
Universities in South Africa have offically opened and our Girl's Scholarship Fund is once again providing life changing opportunities to hundreds of promising young women.
We have 90 first year girls starting school at Nelson Mandela University (NMU) this year. This is, by far, our biggest cohort every. It will be a ton of work for our team, but we are super excited to see so many of our youth getting this opportunity. In total, we now have 300 girls registered at NMU.
The first two months of the year are exhausting on our side as we scramble to get the girls accepted into university and find everyone housing. We are happy to share that 15 have been selected to live in our Masinyusane House of Excellence. As always, they will benefit from free food, the internet, mentoring & the culture of success that we have built over the years.
If you follow us on social media, you may have seen that we had 9 additional young women graduate this past December. These are my favorite moments, as they are the culmination of four years of hard work. We are also proud to share that our 2019 pass-rate was an astounding 90% (a record for us!). It's a testament to how hard the girls are working to better their future.
You are making an enormous difference in the lives of the girls and their families.
Thank you for showing them so much support, generosity & love,
Jim
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