ORIGIN STORY
After several volunteer trips to Fountain of Hope Orphanage in Lusaka, Zambia, our organization has been inspired by the faces, voices and spirits of these children. From 2016 to present, many of these students' primary and secondary education were funded by our compassionate and generous community. We hope that launching S.R.E.I. in 2021 will provide more opportunities and resources for disadvantaged, yet ambitious students to have access to quality higher education.
THE FIRST CLASS
Before launching our organization in 2021, we had crowdsourced donations to help multiple students pay for a lower secondary and upper secondary school in Lusaka, Zambia.
2016
$4500 raised to fund 30 Students for the year.
2017
$7,500 raised to fund 50 Students for the year.
2018
$8,000 funded one student for two years.
2019
$5,000 raised for First Student accepted into College.
2020
$15,000 raised for First Student to attend college.
2021
Formation of S.R.E.I. and will be distributing up to $5,000 of funding for students applying to our scholarship program.
'21-'22
About $33,034 was raised, and almost $30,000 was distributed.
'22-'23
As of November 2022, we have raised about $64,000 and have awarded over $58,450 in scholarships. We still have until March for the end of our fiscal year, and will keep working to provide any mid year emergency funding.
'23-'24
Fiscal year begins April 2024 and will last until March 2023
Currently accepting applications for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year, and scholarships will typically be awarded in Summer 2024, except for special emergency circumstances. Mentorship and Student ambassador programs will be announced on the forums page.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions or requests.
“If you expect a harvest each year, grow rice; if you expect a harvest every ten years, grow trees; and if you expect a harvest in a hundred years, cultivate pools after pools of talented people. For rice can be ripe in one year; trees can grow up in ten; and the quality of people in a state can only be improved in a hundred. With high-quality people, a state can reap long-term benefits.”
Guan Zhong (770 BCE–476 BCE)
