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'Digital literacy opens doors'. It’s the simple mantra behind Tech4Progress – an NGO set up by Mastercard Foundation Scholar Nelson Elijah and friend Favour Oguibe to equip children with essential digital skills.

Two years on from graduating, we catch up with Bupe Banda about how she’s using her training in her new role with the Alliance for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities for Conservation in Africa, and the conservation initiatives inspiring her in Zambia and beyond.

Jacqueline Niyodusenga and Mathias Bizimana are the first Rwandan students to join the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Cambridge.

Lagu Emmanuel Anthony explains why empowering South Sudan’s smallholder farmers is crucial for a sustainable future — and how the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program inspired him to take action.