MasterCard Foundation scholars from various North American universities at a leadership seminar.

An $828 million private scholarship program

Elizabeth Redden

Irene Kinyanguli, a senior at Arizona State University, comes from Tanzania, where her father works in a gas station and her mother is a teacher. “We did have the basics -- food, shelter, clothing -- we got what we needed,” Kinyanguli says. But an international higher education would have been out of reach without a scholarship.