Join with us to tackle graduate unemployment in Africa
We connect African university students with verified professionals for a better educational experience, mentoring and career pathway guidance
Become a MentorWe connect African university students with verified professionals for a better educational experience, mentoring and career pathway guidance
Become a MentorWe provide African university students with upskilling programs to equip them to be their very best and take action to change Africa and the world
Donate NowThrough our mentoring programs where we match an African undergraduate student to a verified African professional or ally, we aim to create a new Africa, one student at a time.
Our students come from modest backgrounds and in spite of shortcomings inherent in their educational systems, we support them to go on to achieve world-class success.
Through our training programs, VarsityMentor alumni go on to become leaders in every field imaginable, from business and law, to education and the arts, to science and medicine.
Community Innovation
Under our Community Innovation program, we sponsor our students to select social innovation projects that seek to make life better for their communities and for the world. Students work in teams on the projects throughout their university journeys. Do you want to suggest projects? Get in touch with us.
Career Exposure Workshop
This is the first event in our Career Workshop Series. We hope to bring together students, college and university personnel, the business sector, leading tech companies and other stakeholders to discuss the future of work for African youth. Do you want to find out what a rewarding career looks like and how to start one?
Book of the Month
Do you feel like you are always an underdog in this game of life? What’s your worst problem? In this book, Ryan Holiday offers a practical approach for turning our trials into triumph. Drawing from Stoicism, the book uses real life examples to drive home the point as the great philosopher, Marcus Aurelius wrote: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." Could that very problem obstructing your progress be an opportunity? Read on.