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Give to the Yale Young African Scholars Fund

By making a gift to Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS), you are supporting high achieving, low-income high school students to attend a program that expands students minds by exploring various fields of study and career paths through lectures and seminars, learning about how to access competitive higher education opportunities with sessions from universities across the globe, and working with a network of volunteer mentors from the Yale community and beyond.

YYAS is a non-profit program and in each year we plan to offer a residential program once again for a group of over 110 students and in addition to a conference educators from the African. Additionally, we will continue to offer an online program with similar content for over 220 students. Given the costs associated with internet access across Africa, we strive to work with telecommunications companies to cover data bundles so students can access the online program, but this is currently not guaranteed for all students who demonstrate financial need across the more than 35 countries represented annually.

To make the program as accessible as possible, the YYAS Residential Summit is a tuition free program, with all students’ accommodation and food covered by YYAS during the program. However, the total residential cost per student to participate in YYAS can range from $1,500 to $2,000 USD per student given the increasingly high cost of air travel within Africa. Through outside support, we plan to offer travel scholarships for high achieving, low income students to access the residential program and learn in a diverse, pan-African setting.

We hope to gain generous outside support from donors to provide necessary travel support for high achieving, low income students to access our programming and we appreciate any contribution to increase access to high quality educational opportunities for hundreds of high achieving, low income students from dozens of countries across Africa. You may make a general gift towards covering the program costs for one or several students or you may choose where your contribution will make an impact, such as toward student travel or other necessities.

Please visit this link to give to YYAS.

We sincerely thank you for considering supporting the Yale Young African Scholars program!

Mentor and Present to YYAS Participants & Alumni

Each year we recruit dozens of volunteer mentors from the Yale community and beyond (including YYAS alumni studying abroad at international universities). We periodically send various opportunities to mentor and speak with YYAS participants and alumni through our alumni network emails.

Other Ways to Give

As previously mentioned, a majority of the direct cost associated with student participation in our online or residential programming is internet data and airfare. While we will continue our outreach to various internet service providers and airlines across the African continent, we are grateful for any introductions to individuals or organizations who can help minimize these costs for students in these areas.