Igniting Change:SCHOLAR SPONSORSHIP fund
Through our Igniting Change Campaign our goal is to raise $125,000 for tuition, books and academic support for 50 talented and driven young scholars. DONATE TODAY!
Support our Igniting Change Campaign
Why Join WMI for this Campaign?
WMI believes in locally-led, grassroots change. We believe the best way to do this is this to invest in young changemakers.
WMI is on a mission to not only educate young leaders, but to give them the tools and support to transform their communities. Through our scholars’ community work, we have seen that the key to sustainable change is grassroots locally-driven solutions. Through their professional and volunteer work, our scholars served over 172,697 people in the last year.
By sponsoring a scholar you are not only helping educate a young person in need but impacting the future of whole communities.
Through this campaign you also have the option to either designate your gift to a scholar in a field or country of your choice or to one of the following funds:
- Women’s Education Fund: Across the globe, women’s advancement leads to positive outcomes for all, educating women is the single most impactful development investment you can make, benefiting the individuals, their families, communities and country.
- Medical Scholars Fund: There is a discrepancy in access to healthcare around the world, we are committed to changing this with medical professionals making up 45% of our students.
Sponsor a Scholar
For $2,500 you can support a scholar for one year including the cost of tuition, books, academic and leadership support for 1 year.
- Each donor will be matched with a scholar and receive two updates a year on their academic and community service work.
- You will also have the opportunity to name the scholarship in honor or memory of a loved one.
Monthly Giving
- $10/month: Support books for one student scholar
- $85/month: Support a scholar-led community initiative grant
- $105/month: Support a semester of education
- $210/month: Support a year of education
Join Us for A Virtual Event
April Event (RSVP here): April 25, 5:30-6:30 pm EDT
May Event (RSVP here): May 23 12:30-1:30 pm EDT
Hear from and engage with three exceptional WMI Scholars. They will discuss the impact WMI scholarships have had on their lives, their community work, and their plans for the future. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about the review and selection process.
We are pleased to say that we have reached our year-end fundraising goal! Your continued support has a significant impact on the lives of the 644 WMI Scholars and the communities they serve. Thank you!
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Really need to be supported by you 😭
Congratulations 💕💕💕
That's awesome!
Splendid
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That's awesome! Congratulations!
That's awesome! Congratulations!
Our year-end appeal is coming to a close on January 15. Will you support young changemakers like Sospester with a donation?
“I wish to extend a heartfelt thank you for recognizing my achievement, trusting me, and helping me complete my bachelor of nursing science. I believe the advice and guidance you have given me will result in a positive outcome for me and others. Your financial generosity has allowed me to be one step closer to my goal and has inspired me to give back to my community." Sospeter Nyagabona, Scholar of Nursing, Tanzania
Great and well done as we even celebrate WMI
Congratulations brother
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Congratulations
That's awesome! Congratulations!
Aminata Diallo, a WMI Scholar and December 2022 graduate wrote to us saying, “Thank you so much for your support, I am very grateful! The scholarship helped me so much, you have no idea. I mean this from the bottom of my heart, thank you all.”
Aminata is from Mali and studied education with a focus on gender equality at the African Leadership University in Rwanda. She recently served as an expert at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in Santiago, Chile, chosen as a result of her activism and advocacy related to gender equality and indigenous rights.
We have raised 80% of our goal for this year - will you donate today and help us reach our goal? Your support will enable young scholars worldwide to pursue their dreams and help their communities.
That's awesome! Congratulations!
Congratulations
Congratulations 🎊
That's awesome! Congratulations!
We’re excited to host the Dream Big Conference in Kenya in August 2023! This conference provides our scholars with support from people coming from similar backgrounds and a shared vision to help their communities. Dream Big enables scholars to form Fellowships, friendships, and learn from each other.
Anne Marie Ndiaye from Senegal met Alpha Bangura at the conference in 2018 at a difficult time and was able to grow with this connection. This quote from her below says it best -
"On a Wednesday in 2018, I got to the Dream Big Conference…He was the first eye contact I got and the first who came up to me...Through the conference, I discovered someone passionate, committed, ambitious and caring about other people's lives and dreams…He was patient and understanding, he told me my worth, my capacities and encouraged me to never give up on my dreams. You have been a mentor, a coach, a motivation for me…Thomas Bangura there so much more to say than THANK YOU!" - Anne Marie Ndiaye
I am so happy about this new. And about this testimony shared. I am so sure that 2023 DBC will have such an impact on people lives. Can't wait and super excited ! ❤️❤️❤️ Happy New Year family !
Love this story. I am so excited that we can finally have another DBC this summer.
That's great news! Happy New Year to you guys
I can't wait
Happy 2023 to the well mountain initiative family Dream Big 🤜💪💪
Wonderful news!! Anne Ndiaye let's plan to arrive on the same day. Kenya is gonna be lit in August.
What amazing news to hear !
This is amazing news!!! Karibuni Kenya. Hakuna Matata.
Happy new year dearest family
I can't wait to meet the big minds behind the initiative!!
Weighty task but wealthy
This is huge, we look forward to it💙
2023, a year of Divine Advancement and Experience Can't wait to meet all my pals Congratulations
Can't miss this
Great opportunity to find love 😍 May God bless Sir Tom Wells and all the WMI family and grant the prayers of future deserving fellows
Dream Big conference 💚 I really love the name😍 thank WMI for that, looking forward to it
Happy new year everyone here
I would love to be there.do i need an invitation letter or i dont need it and do i have to be a beneficiary of this initiative .
Thomas Bangura 🤗
Can't wait 😊
In 2022 we hosted WMI Academy, an 8 week intensive professional development program with 41 students participating. This culminated in a pitch competition, where the winner received $1000 for non-profit or community based organization of their choice. Fred Okech from Kenya was our winner, pitching a community based organization focused on shared responsibility to uplift his community.
Congradulations on the archievement and best wishes
With a Seed Grant in 2020 and a Growth Grant in 2021, Dr. Catherine Nagadya has built a successful business manufacturing and selling hand hygiene products in Uganda. Catherine uses 40% of the proceeds from this business to support scholarships for girls from underprivileged communities through Girls Unstoppable, a non-profit she founded in 2016. She has financed the secondary education of and provided holistic support for 36 girls in Uganda so far and hopes to keep growing.
More than 700,000 girls in Uganda between the ages of 6 to 12 have never attended school and around half of girls between the ages of 15 to 24 are illiterate. A large contributor to low female literacy and school attendance rates is that up to 40 percent of girls in Uganda are married before the age of 18. (UNGEI)
Congratulations 🎉🎈🎉
Thank You!
Check or Credit Card Donation by Mail
Please fill out our WMI Donation Form and send your contribution to:
Wells Mountain Initiative
25D Main Street
Bristol, Vermont 05443
USA