Clear Impact and Accelerate Performance are excited to announce that Tsitsi Masiyiwa will be a keynote speaker at the RBA Africa Summit to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 8-10, 2014. Additionally, Masiyiwa plans to sponsor the attendance of ten of her staff at the Higher Life Foundation.
Masiyiwa is the executive chairperson of Higher Life Foundation (HLF), four Trusts running in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Burundi, Rwanda and Lesotho. Founded with her husband Strive Masiyiwa, HLF offers holistic and innovative solutions to poverty. For example, the HLF program free Learning Hubs provides computer technology to students without prior access. Other examples of work done by Masiyiwa and HLF include supplying solar lanterns to students experiencing lighting challenges in remote areas and widening access to healthcare by co-sponsoring mobile clinics.
Linking education and technology, Masiyiwa championed the creation of a low-cost and high-quality blended learning model, with the goal of providing quality education to Africa’s children. The model was formed using tailored content in Zimbabwe, but it is scaleable across Africa. Capernaum Trust, the largest privately-funded scholarship program in Southern Africa, has students in establishments like Waterford Kamhlaba Swaziland, Monash College South Africa, Morehouse College and Spelman College USA. She serves on the HLF Trusts’ boards and is a founder of the African Philanthropy Forum.
Masiyiwa and her husband also recently made the Giving Pledge, initially organized by Bill Gates. The Giving Pledge is an effort to help address society’s most pressing problems by inviting the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes either during their lifetime or in their will. Masiyiwa was also recently highlighted for her charity in Forbes Magazine.
