Education Matters is proud to announce Chiedza Mufunde as our second Head of School for USAP Community School. Chiedza, herself a proud USAP alumni from the USAP Class of 2007, was born and raised in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. She attended Murewa High School Form 1 to 6 and then, via USAP, enrolled at and graduated from … Continue reading Chiedza Mufunde Joins USAPCS as Head of School
USAP@20 Fights COVID-19 – Clarety Kaseke Works On Vaccine Team
USAP Alumni are putting their education, skills and experience to work to fight COVID-19 however and wherever they can. In this blog series, we will be highlighting their efforts. The blog below comes from USAP alumna Clarety Kaseke who is working on the quest for a COVID-19 vaccine at the Ragon Insitute of Massachusetts General … Continue reading USAP@20 Fights COVID-19 – Clarety Kaseke Works On Vaccine Team
USAP Alum Wins Cambridge Gates Scholarship
USAP alumna Ntombizodwa Makuyana has been named a Cambridge Gates Scholar, with a scholarship that will fully fund her PhD in Biological Sciences at Cambridge University. Ntombi graduated from the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University with a BSc degree in Medicinal Biochemistry in 2019 as a MasterCard Foundation Scholar. She is the second … Continue reading USAP Alum Wins Cambridge Gates Scholarship
Brave Spaces: Opening Plenary at CIS Global Forum 2019
On November 20, 2019 in Bilbao, Spain, Education Matters Director Rebecca Zeigler Mano gave the opening plenary address at the CIS Global Forum. Below is the full text of her speech titled “Brave Spaces.” Good morning! It is an incredible frankly daunting honor to speak in front of a room full of amazing colleagues, … Continue reading Brave Spaces: Opening Plenary at CIS Global Forum 2019
100% Matching Funds for USAP Community School
As we come to the end of 2019, we are very grateful for an anonymous donor who this year pledged $500,000 in matching funds to match every donation to the USAP Community School 100%. We are getting close to finishing off these matching funds and all donations between now and January 1 will still be … Continue reading 100% Matching Funds for USAP Community School
USAP Community School Applications Are Out!
The USAP Community School is accepting applications from qualified O’level students to begin A’level in January 2020. Our two year A’ level only boarding school is in service of the fact that there are many determined and talented, economically-disadvantaged students in Zimbabwe who only lack financial resources and access to information to better their educational … Continue reading USAP Community School Applications Are Out!
USAP in the New York Times
We were ecstatic to wake up on Sunday morning to see that the USAP story was shared in the New York Times! Renowned columnist Frank Bruni wrote a powerful article on our students and our work which you can read here . We are grateful for this positive publicity as we continue to fundraise to … Continue reading USAP in the New York Times
19 Students Studying Abroad Graduate from ZCC Internships
Nineteen Zimbabwean students on break between studies at universities in Canada, the United States and Ashesi University in Ghana today (26 July 2019) graduated from the Zimbabwe Career Connect internship program. Based in Bulawayo and Harare, the students spent the two months of June and July learning and contributing as interns at prominent companies and … Continue reading 19 Students Studying Abroad Graduate from ZCC Internships
29 USAP Students Begin Studies with over $7 million in Scholarships
Twenty nine USAP Zimbabwe students chosen from an applicant pool of over 700 have collectively earned over $7,728,212 in scholarships and financial assistance to study in seven countries internationally this month. Harkening from geographically diverse regions of Zimbabwe, the 29 are pursuing a wide variety of fields of studies at universities in Costa Rica, Ghana, … Continue reading 29 USAP Students Begin Studies with over $7 million in Scholarships
USAP Community School Gets Half A Million Matching Pledge
As we continue to fundraise to build the USAP Community School, brick by brick, board by board, we have exciting news. An extremely generous donor, who has chosen to remain anonymous, has pledged a $500,000 grant to match dollar for dollar every donation we get up to that amount. We have launched a campaign to … Continue reading USAP Community School Gets Half A Million Matching Pledge