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Higherlife Foundation Co-Chair, Tsitsi Masiyiwa, awarded Champions for Change Award for Leadership

by HLFAdmin in Blog, News. Posted March 6, 2019

On the 5th of March 2019, Higherlife Foundation Co-Chair Tsitsi Masiyiwa was honoured by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)* with the prestigious Champions for Change Award for Leadership in London. Now in its 13th year, the Champions for Change Award celebrates leaders and visionaries who demonstrate remarkable leadership in promoting the rights ...

Keep your head up high

by HLFAdmin in Blog. Posted February 4, 2019

Life is a storm, you will bask in the sunlight one moment and be shattered on the rocks the next day. What is important is what you do when that storm calms… As I think about the last year, I cannot help but see God’s grace upon Higherlife Foundation. As an organisation, we weathered ...

Africa’s Big Philanthropy: Home-Grown

by digital in Blog. Posted November 2, 2018

The last two decades in Africa have seen a rise in Home-grown philanthropy particularly aimed at addressing specific issues and creating impact at a more structural level. ‘The growth of Home-grown philanthropy in Africa has its roots in a number of phenomena, one of them being the 2008 financial crisis which resulted in long-standing foreign ...

Digital Revolution Holds Bright Promises for Africa

by digital in Blog. Posted June 14, 2018

Internet penetration is creeping up in Africa, bringing the prospect of digital dividends to a continent long marked by digital divides. “Africa has reached a penetration which has broken the barrier of 15 %, and that’s important,” says Nii Quaynor, a scientist who has played a key role in the introduction and development of the ...

Using Information To Empower Future Generations – Part 6 (Tariro and Rufaro’s Story)

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted June 4, 2018

We fast forward one last time to the two characters; Rufaro and Tariro. Rufaro, now aged 32, works as the Head of Finance for a big bank in Zimbabwe. Whilst Tariro, aged 30, owns and runs two successful hair salons in Harare. They have both remained in touch with each other through Higherlife Foundation’s mentorship ...

Tsitsi Masiyiwa’s fireside chat at Carnegie Mellon University Africa

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted May 29, 2018

Recently, Carnegie Mellon University Africa (CMU-Africa) hosted Mrs. Tstisi Masiyiwa, Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the Higherlife Foundation, as part of CMU-Africa’s ongoing Distinguished Lecture Series. The series is a long-standing tradition, that brings in industry leaders from across the globe to speak on a variety of topics from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence to space exploration. ...

Using Information To Empower Future Generations – Part 5 (Tariro and Rufaro’s Story)

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted May 28, 2018

On this joyous day we celebrate both of our children; Rufaro and Tariro. In the warm southern state of Georgia, in the United States of America; Rufaro becomes a university graduate. Rufaro has graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Studies and minor in Accounting from Morehouse College. At the graduation ceremony it ...

Using Information To Empower Future Generations – Part 4 (Rufaro’s Story)

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted May 23, 2018

After Rufaro’s conversation with Tari, he is awarded the Joshua Nkomo scholarship and becomes a Higherlife foundation Joshualite. On completing his O-levels he applies to attend the Yale Young African Scholar’s programme and to his excitement, he gets accepted. Rufaro writes to his mother while away attending the YYAS program: Dear Mama, How are you? ...

Using Information To Empower Future Generations – Part 3 (Rufaro’s Story)

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted May 22, 2018

In late May, Tariro walks home from a typical day in Form Two at Domboramwari High School and meets a boy who lives on the same road, named Rufaro. Rufaro, aged fifteen, attends ZRP High School and is preparing to write his O-levels. They strike up an interesting conversation on education. Tari: “So, Rufaro, what ...

Using Information To Empower Future Generations – Part 2 (Tariro’s Story)

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted May 15, 2018

Today we fast forward into Tariro’s future. She still stays with Babamukuru Sedekene, and his three daughters. She is now thirteen years old and is in her second term of form one at Domboramwari high school. Tari has been on the Capernaum Scholarship for six years now and has received some of the services Higherlife ...