Fares Burwag’s Yale Young African Scholars experience

by digital in Education. Posted September 5, 2017

Attending the Yale Young African Scholars has got to be one of the highlights of my high school years. Having never flown alone, nor been immersed in such a diverse mixture of cultures and personalities, YYAS rightfully claims its position as one of the most unique, enriching opportunities I’ve had the fortune to be a ...

Kudakwashe Bvunzawabaya’s Yale Young African Scholars experience

by digital in Education. Posted September 5, 2017

It is indeed a great honour and priviledge for me to be selected among the 300 successful applicants from over 3000 extraordinarily talented African students who applied for this magnificent program. I am very grateful to YYAS (Yale Young African Scholars) having been afforded this rare opportunity to participate in the potentially life changing program. ...

Mahmoud Haroun’s Yale Young African Scholars experience

by digital in Education. Posted September 5, 2017

My name is Mahmoud Haroun, a High School Senior attending STEM Egypt High School which introduces STEM education to the country as a national project from the Ministry of Education and USAID. I am a young man who always tries to take new challenges to enhance his skills and knowledge. I dream and plan to ...

Ruzivo Smart Learning celebrates 150 000 users on the platform

by digital in Education, News. Posted August 30, 2017

Recently Ruzivo Smart Learning, Zimbabwe’s leading e-learning platform for primary and secondary students powered by Higherlife Foundation and Econet Wireless recently celebrated reaching over 150 000 users on the platform nationwide! To kick off celebrations of this great milestone, Higherlife Foundation held a celebratory ceremony at Tangenhamo Primary School in Chitungwiza – a school that ...

Yale Young African Scholars Zimbabwe Edition underway

by digital in Education, News. Posted August 22, 2017

The Zimbabwean edition of the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) 2017 program in partnership with the Higherlife Foundation started yesterday at Arundel School in Harare and will end on the 24th of August. According to YYAS Program Manager Laura A Kaub this years’ program features 103 students ,that is 57 girls and 46 boys from ...

Higherlife Foundation holds one of a kind Innovate Elevate Youth Conference

by digital in Education, News. Posted July 27, 2017

From the 20th – 22nd of July all roads led to Celebration Centre Harare for the first ever Innovate Elevate Youth Conference powered by Higherlife Foundation. The two day conference saw young Africans from all walks of life come to participate in the life changing conference that focused on learning, exploring, building, connecting and engaging ...

Ruzivo Smart Learning bringing 21st Century learning to Rural Zimbabwe

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted July 13, 2017

We are living in an era where learning is not only about being able to read, write and count but about creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication. Educational institutions are having to adapt and develop new ways of teaching and learning that reflect this ever changing world. 21st Century learning is learner-centred, personalized, visibly relevant, ...

2017 Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) Program Kicks Off

by digital in Education, News. Posted June 28, 2017

On 29th July, the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program kicks off its series of three sessions in Accra, Ghana; Kigali, Rwanda; and Harare, Zimbabwe. YYAS is a high-intensity program that brings together African secondary school students for a cost-free seven-day residential program designed to introduce students to the demanding U.S. university and financial aid ...

Ruzivo Smart Learning reinventing teaching in Zimbabwe – A teachers perspective

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted June 27, 2017

With the evolution of Ruzivo Smart learning a one of a kind e-learning platform for primary and secondary students in Zimbabwe, Higherlife Foundation is helping change the narrative of how children in Zimbabwe learn. Ruzivo has led to the evolution of experiential learning with learners and teachers sharing experiences and content through the platform while ...

Innovate Elevate Youth Conference is investing in the 21st Century Young Africans

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted June 19, 2017

We are living in the youth decade- an era where young people are revolutionizing life as we know it with their unconventional business ideas. This is the time of young billionaires such as 25-year-old Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg! So it comes as no surprise that the 21st Century young person ...