2016 – Page 4 – Higher Life Foundation

Celebrating our Milestones: Higherlife Foundation’s Response to Cholera

by digital in Health, News. Posted June 27, 2016

As Higherlife Foundation celebrates 20 years of impacting lives we look back at some of the big milestones we were involved in over the past 20 years. At the height of a cholera outbreak that was besieging Zimbabwe in 2008, Higherlife Foundation, through, the then, National Healthcare Trust Zimbabwe, responded to the crisis which was ...

Africa’s Female Philanthropist Are Emerging From the Sidelines

by digital in Girls Empowerment. Posted June 20, 2016

Gates, Bono, Buffett. For centuries, the face of global philanthropy has been distinctly white – and male. But that’s changing. As Africa’s economy continues to expand, albeit at a slower pace than in previous years, its homegrown millionaires are choosing to take development matters into their own hands. And many of them are women. This ...

Simba Education meets Higherlife Foundation

by digital in Education, News. Posted June 13, 2016

On the 27th of May 2016, the team from Simba Education visited the Higherlife Foundation head office in Harare. The Simba Education education team shared their overall vision and plans to impact Early Childhood Education though technology in Zimbabwe and Sub-Saharan Africa. The presentation by Simba Education also included the progress that has been made ...

Testimony Of The Month from Bernard Juru #hlfAT20 #TOTM

by digital in Our Fellows. Posted May 31, 2016

I thank God for being raised as a history maker, in 2010 i was awarded a once in a lifetime opportunity to study at Monash University South Africa. Through this beautiful opportunity in 2011-2012 i was voted into Monash University Students Association board where i served as a Sports Liaison Officer for a year! In ...

Students Awarded Davis UWC Projects for Peace

by digital in News, Our Fellows. Posted May 26, 2016

Two St. Lawrence University students have been selected to receive funding this summer for their Davis UWC Projects for Peace 2016 proposals. Malakia Takane ’18 of Maseru, Lesotho, proposal will help provide water for the Mohale’ Hoek villagers, southwest of Lesotho. Due to climate variations Lesotho suffered one of its most extreme droughts in 2015, ...

Mrs. T. Masiyiwa recognized at the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA)

by digital in News. Posted May 18, 2016

The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) was founded in 2010 by Conrad Mwanza. This platform was created to celebrate talent, art, business, expression and achievement in the Zimbabwean community living outside of Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean diaspora refers to immigrants living outside Zimbabwe and over the past decades, highly trained and educated Zimbabweans have contributed significantly to ...

Higherlife Foundation at the Imbuto Foundation’s Youth Forum Series

by digital in Education. Posted May 12, 2016

The First Lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame has urged youth to defy the status quo by learning to...

The Journey to Morehouse, celebrating our boys’ success!

by digital in Education, Our Fellows. Posted May 10, 2016

The Journey to Morehouse is a story of experiences and testimonies of the first group of African students sponsored by Higherlife Foundation to study in the United States of America (USA) at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia under the Ambassador Andrew Young Scholarship Fund. The first group comprising of ten students from Burundi and Zimbabwe was ...