Usahwira Program

In the Shona language, Usahwira means "a beautiful friendship."

A friendship between your church and AfricaUniversity gives a student the opportunity for an education. An education gives this student an opportunity to change the world.

For $5,400 a year, (other amounts are accepted, but the four year commitment is required to participate as a Usahwira member) your church can fund an annual scholarship at AfricaUniversity. Your donation would mean a student could complete a four-year education at AfricaUniversity; the only General Conference approved United Methodist-related Institution of higher education on the continent of Africa.

Since 1992, AfricaUniversity has graduated 2,600 students who are changing the face of Africa. Become part of Usahwira (pronounced YOU-suh-we-rah) and build a relationship that makes a real difference in a young person's life. Please consider establishing your Usahwira.

How to establish Usahwira with AfricaUniversity:

  • Include students, staff, and faculty of the university on your prayer lists
  • Continue faithful support of your local church's annual apportionment
  • Make a four-year commitment to annual scholarship funding and support a student from enrollment to graduation
  • Add an annual Africa University Day celebration to the mission calendar of your church.

 

You will strengthen your Usahwira when you:

  • Participate- through Volunteers in Mission by sending a VIM team or sponsoring a building project
  • Make- a special gift by pledging to the endowment fund. Each member would donate $1 (or more!) to the World Service Endowment Fund
  • Identify- persons who can make a large gift to the scholarship fund, to a designated special project, and/or make a planned gift
  • Enlist- five or more honorary alumni/ae association members at the annual level of $50 or a lifetime membership of $500.

 For more information, please contact us at:

Africa University Development Office                          P.O. Box 340007
Reverend F. Lloyd Rollins                                           Nashville, TN 37203-0007
Director of Development                                            Direct Phone: (615) 838-2887

Email: audevoffice@gbhem.org                              Office phone: (615) 340-7438