14+ Foundation Initiatives
RISE ZAMBIA
Together, we are supporting healthcare workers in Zambia through education and opportunity.
The RISE Zambia Initiative
Realizing Impact through Support for Education
Supporting Higher Education in Technical and Trade Studies in Zambia
RISE Zambia provides scholarships for higher education in technical and trade fields for students in rural Zambia. In collaboration with the Shulman Family, 14+ Foundation announced the initiative in 2015, strengthening the belief that each RISE Scholar can create a better future for themselves and for their country.
The first of the scholarships - the Joan Shulman Scholarship for Nursing Studies - was awarded to Agness Mayani, who began her studies at Makeni College School of Nursing in January 2016. Agness was joined by Nestray Chibi, Nelly Mwinzani and Valentine Kangwa in January 2017. All four RISE Scholars are on track to graduate in 2019.
RISE Zambia is currently reviewing applications for 2018 scholarships for nursing degrees at St. Luke's Mpanshya Mission College of Nursing, Midwifery and Public Health. St. Luke's has been around for 50+ years, and their nursing program is expanding to meet the country's critical rural healthcare needs.
This is an exciting new relationship with a school that provides strong mentorship, close supervision and a location convenient to the 14+ Foundation schools, where the students will continue to spend time encouraging and inspiring the next generation.
The scholarship fund was created in the memory of Joan Shulman, a devoted wife, mother and medical nurse who worked on one of the first primary nursing floors in the country, cared for some of the earliest AIDS patients and devoted many years to hospice work.
RISE Zambia scholarships provide 100% of educational funding including a stipend for room and board. Just as important, they also establish a mentor/advisor program for each student to provide guidance and support and ensure their success.
For more information, questions, advice or matching opportunities, please email us at RISEZambia@14plusfoundation.org
FINANCIAL STABILITY
Provide financial support to deserving students for tuition, room & board, and necessary expenses to help them pursue their dreams
MENTORSHIP
Intensive support and mentorship for students with a goal of 90% graduation and national exam certification rate.
COMMUNITY IMPACT
Ensure scholars are employed in Zambia post-graduation to improve the status of access to healthcare for their communities and their country.
Tiyeseko Women’s Club
Tiyeseko Women’s Club is a community group comprised of approximately 40 local women from the Chipakata Village community. Formed with the support of 14+ Foundation, these women seek to improve their lives and well-being through various income-producing community-based activities. Financial support for the program and its initiatives, including agricultural projects, is funded through a micro-financing partnership established and managed by 14+ Foundation.
Leatrice McKissack Scholarship Fund
The purpose of the Fund is to offer financial assistance to graduates of the Chipakata Children's Academy by providing direct financial support to top students graduating from our program, enabling them to continue onto secondary school and university-level education.Fundraising efforts by 14+ Foundation for the Chipakata Children’s Academy will include allocations to the Leatrice B. McKissack Scholarship Fund on an annual basis.
Bruce High Quality
14+ Foundation and Bruce High Quality are teaming up on an ambitious, year-long printmaking project to benefit the Chipakata Children's Academy in Zambia and future programs at BHQFU.
Though continents apart, the two schools share the belief that free education is a right, not a privilege, and we can make a difference in our communities by creating together.
HOW WE'LL MOVE A MOUNTAIN
First, New York artists and writers are creating original copper plate etchings responding to the question, “How to move a mountain?”
Next, BHQFU will pack up the prints, plates, and press and travel to Zambia to work with the Chipakata students on their own original works of art.
In 2017, the students’ unique prints will be exhibited in Zambia alongside those of US artists, then cross the ocean to New York for an exclusive stateside debut.
The press ends its journey at Chipakata, for the use of all the students to come. Copper plates created by the artists and students will become part of a permanent, large-scale mural on the exterior of the school, where it will patina over time as it faces out toward the
mountains. Featuring:
Aaron Frank • Aga Ousseinov • Allison Roberts • Andrew Ross • Arnold J Kemp • Betty
Tompkins • The Bruce High Quality Foundation • Claudia Rankine • Daniel Heidkamp •
Eileen Myles • James English Leary • Jesse Chun • Jonah Emerson Bell • Karon Davis •
Kentaro Ikegami • Lena Imamura • Lily Rosenquist • Lucien Smith • Mason Salterelli • Milo
Carney • Nathlie Provosty • Nick Gaetano • Nicole Wittenberg • Nina Behrle • Oscar Cornejo
• Pastiche Lumumba • Paul Anthony Smith • Rashid Johnson • Rhys Davies-Gaetano • Sam
Messer • Serban Ionescu • Seth Cameron • Sophie Hirsch • Sophy Naess • Torey Thornton
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