Ruzivo Smart Learning in the misty mountains of Nyanga

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

Hidden in the mountainous marvel of Nyanga’s rural areas is Mount Melleray School a Catholic boarding learning institute that conveys a balance of tradition and innovation, history and aspiration, wisdom and the constant search for new knowledge. Home to about 4,852 people, Nyanga is a remote town in Zimbabwe that is regarded as a great ...

Ruzivo unlocking the potential of future leaders

by digital in Blog, Education. Posted October 2, 2017

Everything in life was created with potential and possesses great potential to change its future. In every seed there is a tree…in every bird a flock…in every fish a school…in every sheep a flock… in every cow a herd…in every boy a man…in every girl a woman…in every nation a generation. However few people really ...

The YYAS Experience, A student’s perspective

by digital in Education. Posted September 15, 2017

With a growing youth bulge, Africa is set to be the continent at the helm of greatness through its young population. African youths thus have to be provided with the resources and platforms to move the continent to greatness. Enter the Yale Young Scholar Program… 300 of Africa’s most talented scholars were chosen to come ...

Isabel Masawi’s Yale Young African Scholars experience

by digital in Education. Posted September 5, 2017

I was born and have lived in Zimbabwe all my life so it might be unbelievable to most of you when I say I didn’t know what Africa was until about a week and a half ago. A week ago, I was privileged enough to find out what Africa was and to view it from ...

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 Founders Strive & Tsitsi Masiyiwa speak at APF Learning Session in Johannesburg

by digital in News. Posted August 22, 2017

On the 3rd of August, Higherlife Foundation Founders Mr Strive and Mrs Tsitsi Masiyiwa participated at the African Philanthropy Forum (APF) regional learning session in Johannesburg to explore the role of key actors and partnerships in philanthropy. This session was focused on shaping a new narrative on African philanthropy to take African philanthropy to the ...