My name is Prince Chakanyuka, the last born in a family of three boys. The first being 28 years, the second 22 years and I am 17 years old. This has been my family since October 2013 after my parents passed away in 2013 but on different dates. My oldest brother is the breadwinner in […]
My name is Sikhosana Lesley Dhliwayo. I was born on 22 August 1997 in Harare, Zimbabwe. I am now aged 16. I was born in Glen Norah, Harare, and stayed there until l was Grade 3. I did my Grade 1 to 3 at lnfill Primary School. I was staying with my grandmother then because […]
Well we have our final 8 – 4th intake. What a process – starting in September 2013 and finishing a few days ago. We have 8 wonderful students, whose lives will be radically changed. We will post another blog with information on each of them soon. Why I wanted to write this? I suppose through […]
To kick off 2014 I thought I’d share with you what Makomborero is achieving in Zimbabwe – from the perspective of a couple of our students. In the UK, access to free education up to A-levels is considered a basic right, but in many countries around the world, there is no such thing as free […]
As 2013 comes to an end we have been celebrating our Upper Sixth Students and their time with Makomborero. Many of these students have incredible stories of what they have overcome to get to this point. Mark and Laura and all of us at Makomborero are so proud of their achievements, not only academically but […]
In September 2012, we were approached by Espoon yhteislyseo Upper Secondary School in Finland to partner with them as they ran a Global Citizenship Course learning about third world countries. Our students were asked to write articles about Zimbabwe, our culture, food, music, schooling etc. The Finnish students also shared information on Finland etc. It […]
As you know from our previous blog, most of our students have now started their university courses. Lesleen is studying Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe, and sent us this report: Hello Mr and Mrs Albertyn, I have just completed my first week of lectures at the university. Wow, the load of work is amazingly […]
So what happened to the 15 students who graduated from Makomborero last year? This is a question we get asked all the time and I thought it would be nice for you to have a short update as to what these precious 15 are up to!! Through the kind donation of a doctor couple in […]
He contacted us in early January chasing up his application for a scholarship – he had made it through to the second round of our testing but had sadly not got further. Mr A, sir please I need your help. I need the scholarship please. I have nowhere to get my fees from to do […]
