The Bridging Gaps Foundation is awarding fully funded scholarships to vulnerable yet academically gifted students to study Law and Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe.
Twenty students from across Zimbabwe’s ten provinces have been selected under the programme, which aims to widen access to higher education for disadvantaged learners.
The organisation’s patron, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, speaking through a representative, said the initiative seeks to bridge the education gap by supporting high achievers from difficult backgrounds.
“In partnership with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, we searched this country for the most vulnerable yet most academically gifted learners, double orphans, child-headed households, and children living with elderly, infirm grandparents,” he said.
“Some of them were raising younger siblings while studying for their A-Levels. Some shared one textbook among four students.
“Some studied by candlelight because there was no electricity. And despite all of that, they obtained fifteen points or above to study Law and Medicine at our national universities. We selected twenty.
“That is not luck, that is not privilege, that is grit, that is excellence, and that is exactly what Zimbabwe need.”
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