2019 Cohort

Congratulations to the students selected for our 2019 cohort!

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Bhekiwe Dlamini

From: Eswatini
Hopes to study: English Literature

Favorite Quote: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?”

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Thato Phoso

From: Lesotho
Hopes to study: Business

Favorite Quote: "Life is not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it's about doing, being and becoming, it's about the choices you choose to say today. It's about what you 're gonna do after you finish reading this."
-Mike Dooley

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'Matoba Mthembu

From: Lesotho
Hopes to study: Tourism, Business

Favorite Quote: "You are never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready."
- Flora Rheta Schreiber

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Adesuwa Iyonmana

From: Nigeria
Hopes to study: Nursing

Favorite Quote: "Tough times never last but tough people do."
- Robert Schuller

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Keren Yahira

From: Tanzania
Hopes to study: Maternal Health

Favorite Quote: "Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

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Mariama Bah-Jalloh

From: Sierra Leone
Hopes to study: Accounting

Favorite Quote: "Women work harder and they are more honest; they have less reason to be corrupt."
-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, first female president in all of Africa and my role model

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Pendo Mollel

From: Tanzania
Hopes to study: Law, Military Science

Favorite Quote: “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but any one can start today and make a new ending.”
- Maria Robinso

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Lilian Pakatta

From: Tanzania
Hopes to study: Law, Business

Favorite Quote: “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

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Suzan Shayo

From: Tanzania
Hopes to study: Business

Favorite Quote: "The future belongs to those who prepare for it to day."
- Malcolm X

Donate to Hereith

Hereith Mkomwa

From: Tanzania
Hopes to study: Civil Engineering

Favorite Quote: “Every test in our life makes us bitter or better, every problem comes to make us or break us. The choice is ours to become victims or victorious.”
– Lorenzo Dozier

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Jesca Mkindi

From: Tanzania
Hopes to study: Linguistics

Favorite Quote: "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
-Maya Angelou

Donate to Nancy

Nancy Lyimo

From: Tanzania
Hopes to study: Law

Favorite Quote: "Light tomorrow with today."
- Elizabeth Barret Browning

Donate to Maleema

Maleema Nts'onts'o

From: Lesotho
Hopes to study: Social Work

Favorite Quote: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Donate to Makena

Makena mwiti

From: Kenya
Hopes to study: International Trade and Policy

Favorite Quote: "The time is always right to do what is right,”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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