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STAR Leadership Academy Students Awarded Prestigious Harare International School Scholarships

by Higherlife in Education, Girls Empowerment, Our Work. Posted June 2, 2023

Three STAR Leadership Academy (SLA) students, Nicole Phiri, Nokutenda Dzobo and Simone Kamupinya, recently awarded full scholarships to attend the Harare International School (HIS) say the skills they gained at SLA will help them adapt to the new environment. HIS is a premier international school in Zimbabwe. It is the only institution offering the International ...

Zimbabwe’s disaster response nerve centre nearing completion

by Higherlife in Our Work. Posted April 3, 2023

All countries are prone to natural disasters, the difference is how they respond. In 2019, Cyclone Idai swept through Southern Africa leaving a wake of destruction and losses. More than three million people across Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe experienced the direct effects of the cyclone. The economic costs were equally crippling. For Zimbabwe alone, ...

Seek, reach, receive – what we need to reduce maternal mortality

by Higherlife in Health, Our Work. Posted March 3, 2023

Dr Kennedy Mubaiwa Higherlife Foundation Chief Executive Officer makes a case for more training programs for healthcare workers. He posits that skills improvement may help reduce maternal mortality rates in Africa. Recently, the World Health Organisation released a report on the trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020. The numbers were a cold reminder of how ...

Youth Perspectives: A dream for Zimbabwe

by Higherlife in Education, Our Work. Posted February 28, 2023

Zimbabwe recently commemorated its National Youth Day. The day is set aside for young people to reflect on their role in national development, and it usually inspires conversations among them. At Higherlife Foundation, we ran a content series where the youth were sharing their dreams for Zimbabwe. In this article, two students who were part of ...

Multi-stakeholder approach key in NTD elimination

by Higherlife in Health, Our Work. Posted January 30, 2023

Tadiwa, an 11-year-old Grade six student in rural Zimbabwe has missed school for more than a week. She has a distended stomach, nausea, pain, and dizziness. Tadiwa is well known for playing in a nearby stream, the only water source for her village. Today Tadiwa visited the clinic, where she was diagnosed with intestinal worms ...

HLF Fellow among 16 Zimbabwe gender champions

by Rumbidzai Nenzou in Our Fellows, Our Work. Posted December 5, 2022

Charline Vuta a Higherlife Foundation fellow was recently named a gender champion amongst other youths who are pushing back against gender-based violence and promoting gender equality in Zimbabwe. Through her school Charltan School Trust for early married women and adolescent mothers, Charline offers a one year rehabilitation program where the mothers can keep their babies ...

Renewing hope in maternal wards across Zimbabwe

by Higherlife in Health, Our Work. Posted May 12, 2022

At Higherlife Foundation, our work under maternal health is contributing to ensuring the safety of mothers and their children, resulting in a reduction in maternal and infant mortality rates across Zimbabwe. Through the placement of equipment and training of midwives and nurses in hospitals through the support of Elma Group of Foundations and Delta Philanthropies, we ...

Supporting farming communities toward a more food secure Zimbabwe

by Higherlife in Our Work, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted May 10, 2022

Smallholder farmers are the ones who put food on our tables. They are the ones who care for our land and water resources. In the end, they will be the ones to propel the economic growth and development of Africa in the 21st century and we at Higherlife Foundation firmly believe this. Through our ReImagine ...

‘The Need Is So Great’:Tsitsi Masiyiwa On New Gender Fund

by Higherlife in Announcements, Girls Empowerment, Our Work. Posted May 9, 2022

IN MARCH, AFRICAN PHILANTHROPIST AND SOCIAL entrepreneur, Tsitsi Masiyiwa, and other world philanthropists came together to raise $1 billion to advance gender equality and women’s leadership. The organization, Co-Impact, launched The Gender Fund to bring significant resources into a grossly underfunded space and address “gendered systems” – the underlying norms, laws, practices, sanctions, and decision-making ...

SLA pioneers shine bright in high school examinations

by Higherlife in Education, Events, News, Our Work. Posted January 31, 2022

When a learner completes their Ordinary Level, the conventional idea is to head straight to Advanced Level without much delay. That is the structure that has always been followed. However, some believe the regular school curriculum may not be enough to prepare model young adults and professionals who will change the world. The gap saw ...