The Path to Success empowers youth to be change-makers in their communities.
The Path to Success program provides education, practical experience, and mentorship that is not found in schools. It provides opportunities and support to help young people reach their full potential.
Students have access to computers for on-line learning, and gain skills through their community service projects. They are assigned leadership roles and responsibilities that build their self confidence and communication skills.
Key components of the Path to Success include:
- Long-term, one-to-one mentoring including school and home visits
- Individualized staff support through high school and college
- Practical internships designed to empower youth and impart leadership skills
- Year-round academic enrichment: discussion groups, summer and vacation programs and special workshops
- Educational resources, including individual tutoring and use of an onsite computer lab
- Career awareness activities
- Gender-specific programming: Young Men’s and Women’s discussion groups addressing topics to broaden thinking and improve understanding of themselves and others.
- Financial assistance to cover costs of schooling
Sample Accomplishments by Path Students:
- Facilitate weekly classes in community schools where they teach computer literacy and creative arts
- Initiate and run girls’ clubs in three communities (ongoing)
- Design and carried out programs for summer camps (ongoing)
- Managed a project to bring clean water to a village serving 400 people (awaiting funding to assist in the next village)
- Taught communities and schools how to build simple hand-washing stations and wash hands properly (ongoing)
To support a student on their Path to Success we offer full or partial scholarships that require contributions from people like you. A gift of $150 per month funds a full scholarship in your name. Contributions of any amount help fund the general scholarship.
Click below to become a sponsor or to contribute to our scholarship program.
Path to Success: Junior and Senior Scholars
Students in this program may be as young as 10 years old and may remain in the program through graduate school. During vacations and holidays, junior scholars work intensively to achieve goals to improve computer skills, comprehension and use of English language, and become further attuned to CFA Core Values as they participate in community development projects. All available Scholars actively participate as teaching assistants for our summer day camp.
Path to Success: Internship Stage
Internships provide students an intensive path to deeper learning and assists them to meet their financial needs for schooling. By the end of the internship, students will have significantly improved writing skills, organizational ability, computer skills (keyboard and all essential programs), and have learned to set goals and complete a project. They emerge as confident and articulate young adults with the heart and mind to effect positive change in their lives and the lives of others.
