Justin recently caught up with Tony, one of Our Moon’s first students at Hillcrest, to hear about his first year at Ashesi University. When I got to Ashesi I thought I wouldn’t get to interact with many people, the lecturers especially. I thought it would be very formal, but after a week or so I […]
Quality Education
Written by Chris Kaumba As an African, I’m not blind to the problems we face; I’m not blind to my needs and those of my kind. Many though, these problems are, I wish to talk about one: THE QUALITY OF MY COUNTRY’S EDUCATION! Much cogitation is going through my mind as I see little fellows […]
Theresa: My Experience as a Mentor at Our Moon
When Helen asked me to be a mentor for one of her scholars, Janet Botha, I was both excited and scared: excited because I would get the chance to impart my knowledge of college applications, and scared because being a mentor partially meant I had to take responsibility for my mentee’s applications. I was also […]
How Facebook Saved the Day
So picture this. She is stuck three hours from home, on a dusty road in a small broken-down bus jammed with hot bodies, music belching at too many decibels to think. A Facebook message pops up on my screen. “It’s hopeless. I won’t be home in time. And even if I am, my dad will […]