Ashinaga Africa Initiative (AAI) Leadership Programme 2024

Ashinaga was formed by Yoshiomi Tamai, after losing his mother in a traffic accident. The companies goal is to provides financial support and emotional care to youth from across the world, who have lost 1 or both parents. Since the organisation was formed, it has supported over 110 000 orphaned students, to help them further their education. The Ashinaga Africa Initiative (AAI) was formed in 2014, with the goal of providing financial support to orphaned students, to pursue undergraduate university studies abroad.

Applicants must satisfy the following minimum entry criteria before applying (please note that failure to satisfy all the requirements will lead to your application not being considered): You must NOT be older than 23 years oldYou must have lost 1 or both of your parentsYou must a citizen of any of these 49 sub-Saharan countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, CAR, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DRC, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Kenya, Kingdom of Eswatini, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia,South Africa, South Sudan, Seychelles, Sudan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, ZimbabweYou must completed have 3 years of high schoolYou must have maintained an excellent academic record in high school, and have remained at the top 10% of your classYou must wish to study abroad, towards an undergraduate university qualificationYou must lack the financial means to attend university abroad without external fundingYou must be in good health (to be able to study abroad)You must not have any dependentsYou must be committed to returning to sub-Saharan Africa after graduation, and using your professional path to contribute to its socio-economic progressYou must be willing and able to spend a gap year to complete the full-time Ashinaga Preparation Year curriculumYou must be fluent in English, French or Portuguese

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Candidates must follow these steps to apply for the Ashinaga Africa Initiative (AAI) Leadership Programme: Step 1:Register on theAAI Leadership Registrationpage. You will be required to submit clear copies of the following supporting documentation when registering your profile (the submission of these documents is compulsory – if any items are missing, your application may be disqualified): Passport/ ID Card/ Birth certificateMost recent High School Term Report/ TranscriptFinal High School Examination Results Certificate (if applicable) Enter “www.zabursaries.co.za” in the field asking how you heard about the AAI Leadership Programme. Step 2:students who are deemed eligible by Ashinaga will receive an email with the application form. Students will receive the application email within 1 month after registering – if you do not receive the email, then you have not been invited to apply (be sure to check your spam or junk box in your email account). Candidates who pass step 1 and are invited to apply, will be required to submit clear copies of the following supporting documentation (the submission of these documents is compulsory – if any items are missing, your application may be disqualified): ID document or Passport or Birth certificate (copy only)Birth certificate (copy only)Photograph (passport style)All term reports or secondary school transcripts from the past 2 yearsFinal secondary school certificate (with results for each subject) (if you will only be receiving your examination results in February 2023, please send your examination certificate as soon as possible after you have received it)Recommendation letter from a school teacher or principal indicating your performance and character at secondary school (including their contact number, email address and must be stamped or signed)Academic transcripts or official university results (if applicable)Certificates of extracurricular activities, training courses, jobs or other commitments (if applicable)Death certificate of deceased parent/ parents or another official documentation proving parents death or orphan status