EleV supports Indigenous students pursuing ongoing learning through post-secondary education. Working together with Indigenous communities, we are creating opportunities for Indigenous learners to be full partners in their education.

Hanga Ahazaza is a $50 million, five-year initiative focused on increasing employment opportunities for young people while expanding the tourism and hospitality sector in Rwanda.

Through the Expanding Access to Financial Services initiative, Mastercard Foundation is fostering effective and inclusive financial markets that will not only enable more poor people to access financial services and improve their lives — it will also help to drive business expansion and increase youth employment, the overarching focus of the Foundation’s work in the years ahead.

Innovations in Secondary Education (ISE) advances new approaches to achieve equitable and high-quality secondary education, with a focus on marginalized and disadvantaged youth. Projects in this initiative work to increase access to secondary education and aim to elevate employability and entrepreneurial skills.

Leaders in Teaching responds to the opportunities that a quality secondary education represents for the African continent. It supports teachers throughout their careers and prepares them to deliver high-quality, relevant education.

The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program is developing Africa’s next generation of leaders. The program allows students whose talent and promise exceed their financial resources to complete their education.

By working with financial technology companies, as well as with traditional financial service providers, through the Next-Generation Financial Services initiative the Foundation aims to expand digital financial services and complement informal financial practices, leveraging social networks and engaging clients in real time, while using data to tailor products and to extend the access to and use of financial services.

Through the Rural and Agricultural Finance initiative, the Mastercard Foundation is fostering effective and inclusive financial markets that will not only enable smallholder farmers and other rural residents to access financial services and improve their lives — it will also help to drive business expansion and increase youth employment, the overarching focus of the Foundation’s work in the years ahead

Our Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship initiative aims to equip young women and men with the skills and knowledge they need to access jobs or grow businesses, access financial services, and expand the economic opportunities that are available to them.