Scholarships to raise up future local leaders
Will you help provide scholarships to former orphans, trafficked or oppressed children to empower them to help end the extreme suffering in their communities and countries?
Mukundi currently impacts six countries
Mukundi Scholarship Fund allows youth who have overcome extreme poverty and extreme hardships to have the opportunity to get a Higher Education in order to be better equipped to impact people in need in their own countries and communities.
Mukundi means “Overcomer” in the African tribal language Shona. Mukundi Scholarship Fund, in partnership with New Horizons Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit, is dedicated to providing scholarships and leadership development to students who have overcome extreme poverty and extreme hardships.
Mukundi Strategy
Partner with locals to help suffering children
In many struggling communities, there are compassionate local people who feel called to care for the suffering children around them. These selfless individuals often make great personal sacrifices but also lack the resources needed to fully help— as they live in some of the poorest areas of the world.
Our strategy is simple: support them as they care for local children by providing essentials like safe homes, food, medicine, and education—grassroots solutions that transform lives.
Develop the new leaders that arise
As the children are being helped and begin to thrive, new leaders begin to emerge. We offer higher education scholarships and leadership training to develop the next generation of caring leaders equipped to serve the suffering in their communities.
Graduates change paradigms
We graduate new local leaders who go back into their communities and countries and change the paradigms of suffering from the grassroots level.
Mukundi Impact Snapshots
First college graduates in their history
Nearly two decades ago, we came alongside local Cambodian leaders who dreamed of ending the sale of girls into the sex industry. Since then, countless children have been rescued and given the chance to go to school.
Today, many of those same children are graduating high school and stepping into University with the help of Mukundi Scholarships. Even more inspiring, some have already graduated and returned to their villages, changing many lives in the very places where they once suffered.
From extreme oppression to college graduation
In South Asia, far too many children are facing tragic oppression and abuse. Yet, because of the courage and compassion of local leaders, thousands of young lives have been beautifully transformed. Today, over one hundred children have received Mukundi scholarships that have allowed them to attend University.
Many have already graduated and have found meaningful work and are now bringing lasting change to the very places where they once suffered.”
Overcoming the most dangerous place on earth to be a child
Central African Republic has been called the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. War, slavery, violence, and ongoing killings have left countless children suffering with little hope. Yet in the midst of this suffering, courageous local leaders are risking their lives to protect and restore the children of their nation.
Through the Mukundi Scholarships, we are committed to develop the next generation of leaders who will rise up and bring lasting change, transforming the Central African Republic from one of the most dangerous places on earth into a land of safety, peace, and opportunity.
From the streets and jungles to university graduates
The children of Liberia have endured unimaginable hardship: from 13 years of brutal civil war to the devastating Ebola crisis. Yet today, because of the tireless efforts of courageous local leaders, thousands of children have been rescued and given a chance at life. Through the Mukundi scholarships, many of these children are now University graduates, and their impact is being felt throughout the country.
Mukundi graduates in Liberia are already transforming many lives and communities. From rescuing children of prostitutes and drug addicts in the slums to saving malnourished mothers and their newborns in childbirth, the impact we are seeing in Liberia is incredible.
AIDS orphans turned community leaders
The children of rural Zimbabwe have endured suffering no child should ever face. HIV/AIDS has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of mothers and fathers, leaving behind an entire generation of children struggling to survive as orphans. On top of this loss, these orphans face hunger, exploitation, and abuse. Yet in the midst of such heartbreak, there are remarkable local leaders who have dedicated their lives to caring for these vulnerable children.
Through the Mukundi Scholarships, students who once suffered in extreme poverty are now becoming university graduates with a deep desire to help children who are suffering as they once did. We are already seeing Mukundi graduates transform hundreds of lives, and we believe this impact is only the beginning of a movement that will bring hope and change for countless more.
The Very Last is an initiative of the New Horizons Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit.
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