Project: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Amount: $27.8 million
Countries: Pan - African
Support 120 academically talented, yet financially disadvantaged African students in completing a university education, while fostering their leadership skills and their capacity to give back to their communities.
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Project: Baobab
Amount: $9.7 million
Countries: Pan - African
Enable community-building, lifelong learning, and leadership development among Mastercard Foundation Scholars through innovative online and mobile technology.
Empower Scholars across diverse geographies and cultures to share knowledge and resources, to collaborate on give-back projects that address pressing societal challenges, and to become mentors or mentees.
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Project: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program – Phase II
Amount: $22.0 million
Countries: Ghana
Support 150 academically talented, yet financially disadvantaged students in completing their university education at the master’s level, while fostering their leadership skills and their capacity to give back to their communities.
Build institutional linkages with two Ghanaian universities and strengthen the capacity of 42 of their faculty to provide mentorship and support to Scholars.
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