The Represent Foundation

05/29/2025

🎉 Huge congrats to Represent Scholar Grace for scoring an impressive 35.5 out of 40 in her Intro to Economics course! 📊💥 Your hard work and dedication are paying off — we're so proud to see you thriving academically.

05/15/2025

🚲💚 Shoutout to Rihanna and the Clara Lionel Foundation for hooking up girls in Malawi with bikes and scholarships! This partnership with ofo is making school safer and more accessible 🙌

SPONSORED BY AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND & VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS

05/03/2025

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Wishing Anna Pfaffeneder the best of luck as she embarks on her ambitious 1,100 km bike ride from Krummnußbaum to Rome, raising funds for school meals in Malawi! 🍲 Anna, we hope you have tailwinds the whole way, and that you’re treated with as much kindness and generosity as our founder when she did her 5,000 mile ride across the U.S. 💚

‘Every kilometre feeds a child for a year.’

02/09/2025

We’re deeply disappointed with President Trump’s executive order to suspend funding to USAID - US Agency for International Development. In Malawi, this decision could cause serious harm in the education and healthcare sectors, not to mention contribute to already out-of-control inflation. In the words of one of our former Scholars, “His decisions are punishing Africans. What Trump is doing is destructing."

African nation relies on US and other foreign donors to help fund healthcare projects and schools

02/06/2025

A bit late with this, but we’re still proud to share our 2024 accomplishments. Looking forward to another successful year of helping students achieve their dreams of higher education!

12/25/2024

A very merry Christmas from The Represent Foundation 🌲

12/14/2024

Earlier this year, we announced an ambitious goal: to create a scholarship for a Malawian student to attend community college in the United States. After much deliberation, we have decided to press pause on this project.

We knew an undertaking of this scope would be a challenge. Unfortunately, the incoming Trump administration’s immigration policies will likely make it impossible. This is not to cast aspersions on anyone’s political beliefs; it is simply an acknowledgement that the timing isn’t right.

We will still be funding our Scholars as they pursue diplomas and degrees at Malawian universities. We are so proud of their hard work.

Some schools and international students in the U.S. worry about what's to come in the incoming Trump administration. Meanwhile, a new report finds more international students in the U.S. than ever.

12/02/2024

A look at how education is a powerful tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

11/04/2024

Check out this not-so-recent-but-still-amazing NPR story quoting our very own Board Chair, Tawonga!
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/08/24/1113585846/how-educating-girls-and-women-hcan-fight-climate-change

10/28/2024

The Represent Foundation Board of Directors are scattered across North America. Our Board meetings are a careful coordination of time zones, Google Meet invites, and our ongoing WhatsApp group chat.

But when our founder, Brooke, was traveling to New England earlier this year, she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit our Board Chair, Tawonga, at Ohio State, where she’s earning an M.S. in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science. Technology has the amazing capacity to connect us over great distances, but nothing beats hanging out in person, sharing conversation and Malawian snacks (soursop melon and Eet-Sum-Mor biscuits).

10/21/2024

Congratulations to Represent Scholar Ibra for his stellar mid-semester results: a 76% in Physics IV, an 83% in Chemistry IV, and a 96% in applied mathematics! Way to go, Ibra!