BOOST Programs – Overview
The BOOST Fellowship is an organization that is moulding university students into future leaders that will be respected and who will add worth to their community and country. Through equipping these students with entrepreneurship skills, servant leadership skills and staunch communication skills, we at BOOST are empowering them to stand out in the world, as an illustration to the world of what leadership should embody.
Our new SIFE Zimbabwe Program, which was launched in August 2004, is teaching the students to be community conscious. Students are challenged to go out into their communities and to teach these communities the principles of free enterprise, by adopting projects that will bestow that society with personal and financial wealth, and self-sustainability.
Like every other organization in Zimbabwe, The BOOST Fellowship has felt the scourge of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in our society. We have decided to put a stop to the spread through our University AIDS Program. We empower our students to empower their communities to protect themselves and their families, against this disease that is threatening to wipe out our world’s sources of hope.
The BOOST Fellowship inaugural program was established in Zimbabwe in 1999. We have aspirations to expand our program, in the future to other countries, particularly in Africa. In the meantime the program is focused on Zimbabwe and any other person who is a student at a Zimbabwean university can apply to become a BOOST fellow. For each new class of BOOST fellows, the first year of the program begins in March.
Interested students will complete an application form, which will require them to answer questions about themselves and write a short essay. From the pool of applicants, a number of students are short listed and invited to an interview and workshop session.
More information on http://www.theboostfellowship.org
