What we do
Our Mission is to invest time in disadvantaged communities and support high achieving low income students to finish their education and to fulfill their potential. Makomborero aims to provide targeted impact and instill hope and self-belief in our students and their communities.
We do this through eight areas and details of which can be found below. All these areas we believe feed into our Theory of Change and the wider impact we hope to achieve through all our programmes. If you would like to read about our impact so far, please click here to access our Impact Report, written in 2023.
A-Level Scholarship Programme
Find out more about our flagship A-Level Scholarship Programme and see details of the rigorous selection process.
Girl Mentorship Programme
Discover why and how Makomborero is working with schools to help vulnerable girls complete their education.
Mobile Science Laboratory
Many Zimbabwean students cannot access science equipment. We built a mobile science lab to help deal with this challenge.
NDEIPI Small Business Training
We run small business training to teach participants that they can earn an income using the resources that they already have.
Mutsidzira Community Grants
Mutsidzira allows Makomborero Alumini to compete for grants to run projects, serving their communities.
University Grant Scheme for Makomborero Alumni
Read more about the post A-Level support we provide to our students, who continue their studies in Zimbabwe.
Community Service & Rural School Support
Mark and Laura have a vision for education throughout Zimbabwe and love supporting schools in the townships and in rural areas.
Alumni Mentorship
Our Alumni have set up an incredible mentoring programme where our Internal and External students are assigned a past Makomborero student as their mentor for the duration of their A-Level studies
Associations
Makomborero is proud to be part of the HALI Access Network, an association of organisations in Africa that work with high-achieving, low-income (HALI) students to access higher education opportunities.
Makomborero has partnered with ONE Hope Initiatives, run by ONEchurch and Partners to GIVE HOPE to the hopeless. The different programs serve the poor and vulnerable in providing for basic needs, health care, entrepreneurship and life skills.
Makomborero has partnered with GlobalGiving and been vetted by their rigorous due-diligence process since 2016. Makomborero has been Site Visit Verified by one of the organisation’s representatives who visited us and verified the work we do. We have now been classed as Top Ranked within the GlobalGiving Community of Charities and we are honoured to have been selected as a Staff Favourite.
We take safeguarding extremely seriously and we have a policy that is implemented across all our programmes. Please click here for a copy of our safeguarding policy.