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. \u201cWe did have the basics — food, shelter, clothing — we got what we needed,\u201d Kinyanguli says. But an international higher education would have been out of reach without a scholarship.<\/p>\n
Kinyanguli is one of more than 100 students at Arizona State on full scholarships funded by the MasterCard Foundation, which to date reports having made pledges of about $828\u00a0million for its four-year-old flagship scholarship program. The program, officially launched in 2012, is focused on developing young leaders from disadvantaged backgrounds who come primarily from the African continent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I wake up tomorrow the president of Tanzania,\u201d says Kinyanguli, a public policy major who spent the summer as an intern to Tanzania\u2019s permanent mission to the United Nations, \u201cMasterCard would have played a very big role.\u201d<\/p>\n
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