Wells Mountain Initiative

3 days ago

"I am eternally grateful to the Wells Mountain Initiative. Without the scholarship I received at the undergraduate level, I would not have pursued my education further and secured this job. I have received a lot from WMI and I look for ways I can contribute to the education of other less privileged children."

Fru Delvis Ngang of Cameroon was the first in his family to attend university. Six years later he is now an assistant lecturer of statistics and data analysis, geoinformatics, community development, and project management and is a research officer at his alma mater. In five years his dream is to be a senior lecturer and research coordinator. To achieve this dream he has earned a post-graduate diploma in development management and governance. He continues to reach higher and is currently enrolled in a monitoring and evaluation masters degree program. Fru also supports the education of his two nieces, a younger brother, and an adopted orphan. ... See MoreSee Less

Wells Mountain Initiative

1 week ago

This past year Eunice volunteered 787 hours! Eunice Kontomo Tungmene is a WMI Student Scholar of nursing and midwifery from Ghana. Eunice’s dream of becoming a nurse may have seemed out of reach, but as a prior teachers states, “She is a lady who does not allow obstacles to stop her from reaching her goals. Rather, she uses them as a stepping stone.”

Eunice has certainly exhibited an inspiring level of dedication to her studies, her profession and to her commitment to serve the most vulnerable. Over the year Eunice has performed immunization outreach activities and handed out mosquito nets to families in Nsueam-Kyekyewere community, collected donations for patients in the children’s ward, and provided health screenings, immunization and care for children at a children’s home. Eunice has worked at three hospitals, primarily in maternity wards, including the Sawla Polyclinic, which is located in a remote part of Northern Ghana where she often must run double shifts in order to provide care to all the patients. ... See MoreSee Less

Wells Mountain Initiative

2 weeks ago

Meet Isabela Lajeo, a WMI Graduate Scholar of education from Uganda. At the age of 40, Isabela proudly celebrated with her husband and three children the victory of earning her degree. She has since become the head senior women’s teacher at Moyo Town Secondary School in Northern Uganda. She is also head of guidance counseling, runs the Life Skills Club, and was nominated by co-workers to attend a Sexual Gender-Based Violence training with the UN High Commission for Refugees. With a WMI Micro-Grant in 2019, she developed the Salon Arise Project to provide professional hair salon skills training with a curriculum based on small business management skills to young female dropouts. Looking forward, Isabela strives to be the first in her family to earn a master's degree and to work as a school inspector for the Uganda Ministry of Education. ... See MoreSee Less

Wells Mountain Initiative

3 weeks ago

WMI Graduate Scholar Jimmy Francis Odongo has opened a new Keframa High School in Northern Uganda. Jimmy Francis has over 10 years of experience working in education and administration with Keframa and at the Uganda Christian Institute for Professional Development. He, with the support of his family and friends of keframa UK, has built this school as a means to providing affordable yet high quality education to vulnerable children in the local communities. The school contains 3 laboratories and a computer lab for the students, as well as a classrooms, kitchen, offices and large examination hall. We can't wait to see how many bright students will rise up at the new Keframa School! ... See MoreSee Less

Wells Mountain Initiative

3 weeks ago

WMI is proud to announce the first WMI Global Advisory Board Members, Ephy Chao M, Melisa Bhebe, Sujan Gautam and Thomas Sevordzi. These student and graduate scholars will become ambassadors and serve as the liaisons between WMI Scholars and the WMI staff. ... See MoreSee Less