Canon Collins Trust
Canon Collins Trust provides opportunities for people to develop their potential through improved skills and knowledge to achieve transformation in southern Africa.
Our vision is of an open and just society free from discrimination, where all people can meet their needs and have the opportunity to realise their potential.
Today, southern Africa is seized with the task of nation building and reconstruction. Challenges include HIV/AIDs, discrimination along gender lines, corruption, famine, and global economic policies.
Our scholars are from disadvantaged backgrounds and are committed to improving their home community, through studying subjects such as Human Rights Law, Environment, Development and Food Security, Business and Economics.
Our projects reflect current challenges by focusing on community based work on HIV, increasing access to the sciences in local schools, and giving girls access to literacy and basic skills training.
Over the last year, we have directly benefited over 50,000 people in southern Africa through our scholarship programme and education projects.
Nthati and Ellen meet Graça Machel and the Prime Minister at Downing Street
Photo: Zoe Norfolk
At an inspirational evening in aid of the Graça Machel Scholarship Programme, which focuses on disadvantaged women in southern Africa, Nthati Makoko-Russell and Ellen Thom met Mrs Machel and the Prime Minister, pictured above with Canon Collins Trust Chief Executive Sarah Nancollas. Mrs Machel's poignant speech about her passion for her Scholarship Programme, evoked her life's journey from rural girl to global stateswoman, aided solely by the opportunity given her by a scholarship. She spoke of women such as Nthati, an engineer from Lesotho, and Ellen a development specialist from Malawi, building bridges to the 21st Century for the region, providing a route out of poverty and devising strategies for a better future for its people.
For more information on the Graça Machel Scholarship Programme, visit our scholarship pages, and if you'd like to contribute please click here.
