How can we make this claim? We’ve been looking at our impact and our St Jude’s families have collectively saved AU$3.8M by having costs covered by scholarships. These savings are in replacement of schooling costs that typically caused families to go into debt or sell their assets to a value almost one and a half times what they would earn in a year.
By sponsoring a scholarship, you are supporting more than one student. You are supporting an entire family, in fact for every one scholarship you are supporting up to 50 people; including staff and suppliers and their families. So, your one act of kindness starts Mawimbi or ‘ripples’ of change that makes a world of difference in people’s lives.
Our data shows that for each year a student is at St Jude’s they on average improved their income by 15%. That’s not hope for the future. That’s not the hope of better job prospects. That’s real impact. Today. Alleviating pressures at the core of the poverty cycle.