TRANSFORMATIVE SPONSORSHIPS

EdPowerment’s sponsorships have been the cornerstone of its mission to create educational pathways for motivated and capable youth.  These opportunities have taken various forms depending on the student, most spanning many years, culminating in degrees and diplomas.

What is an EdPowerment sponsorship? 

School fees are just the start.  We support and nurture participants in every aspect of their lives: academics, personal needs, family support, physical and mental health, life skills and employment coaching. These close and all-inclusive relationships have proven essential to each individual’s success.

As of 2025, our 72 alumni include 23 university degrees, 4 medical degrees, 3 law degrees, 13 college certificates or diplomas, 6 vocational school graduates and 23 secondary school or higher graduates (some families were able to assume the student’s higher-education costs after initial support from EdPowerment).

Graduates are now employed in a full range of professional and skilled labor positions such as: accountants, engineers, doctors, college lecturers, teachers, NGO program managers, farm managers, pharmacists, long-haul truck drivers, a hairdresser – and entrepreneurial business owners.

Today's ongoing higher-education “family” includes students pursuing careers in clinical health and water engineering & resource management.

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INTERVENTIONAL SPONSORSHIPS

In January 2022, EdPowerment re-focused its sponsorships on local students with clear academic promise whose circumstances — poverty, family demands, distance from school -  kept them from performing at their potential, or from continuing past Secondary School (Form 4).

Today, 4 of the original primary school cohort remain on track, excelling in secondary studies. Six other talented students identified by educational administrators are pursuing vocational, college, or other education. Without this program, all of this potential would have gone unnoticed entirely.

 

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Over 16 years, EdPowerment has helped more than 90 students break out of the poverty they were born into — and in doing so, changed what's possible for their families and communities.