Calvin Mavuso, a UKWAZI Scholarship Recipient, recently graduated from African Christian College with a major in organisational leadership. Calvin is from Swaziland and wrote about the most important lessons he learned in college. Thanks to your purchases, students like Calvin get a chance at higher education and life transformation. I applied to African Christian College a year after finishing high school. It was far better than other colleges around, and I was glad when I was accepted to enroll in 2016. It really was a pleasant feeling to see myself taking another important step in advancing myself academically. College has helped me to grow spiritually, academically, and personally. This college has not been just a college, but it became...
Julia Rinopisa was a UKWAZI Scholarship Recipient and recent (2018) graduate with an undergraduate degree in counseling. Originally from Zimbabwe, Julia tells about her college experience supported by your purchases of macadamia products. I came to African Christian College as a holder of a diploma in theology, and I thought that studies were going to be easy for me. The knowledge I had accumulated in my study and ministry work fooled me to think that it will be a walk in the park here. To my surprise, when I got in class I discovered that the knowledge that I had acquired previously was just an introduction. In many ways, it was more like I was starting all over again...
Thanks to your purchases, Thokozani Mhlanga is a November 2017 graduate of African Christian College and a UKWAZI Scholarship Recipient. Below, he tells his story of getting to and completing college. Having spent eight years trying to get into a proper college and further my studies, all hope was gone. I had given up on higher education and was in the process of throwing in the towel until one day a workmate introduced me to African Christian College. At first I refused to even apply because I had told myself maybe I am not meant for university education. A couple of months later, I told myself I would just apply even though I knew I was not going to...
Vuyo Fakudze, from Swaziland, recently completed his undergraduate degree from African Christian College as a UKWAZI Scholarship Recipient. He wrote this reflection about his journey through college the past few years: Soon, I will be sleeping for the first time in three years knowing that I have no assignment due. Believe me when I say there is nothing as disturbing as knowing that there is an assignment you have not finished. You sleep but you do not really sleep. That is probably the reason why college life is exhausting such that the only thing you want to do after graduation is rest. The preparation one goes under at African Christian College involves being squeezed, shaken, stretched, folded, and unfolded....
Lazarus Libongo is in the first few months of college in Swaziland and is able to attend because of the UKWAZI Scholarship that sales of macadamia nuts and oil make possible. This is his story, in his words. My life was not as easy as walking through golden roses, but it was a life full of challenges; it was survival of the fittest. I passed through mud trains, deep valleys, and also through thick bushes. My motto was, “Life is what you make it.” I grew up in a family of four, and I am the youngest. I was born in the year 1990 on 12 January and I am proudly Zimbabwean. I grew up in a village where...
