{"id":15433,"date":"2022-09-15T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/?p=15433&preview=true&preview_id=15433"},"modified":"2022-09-16T10:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:48:36","slug":"tsitsi-makufa-found-stability-as-a-global-citizen-now-shes-determined-to-pay-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/tsitsi-makufa-found-stability-as-a-global-citizen-now-shes-determined-to-pay-it-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsi Makufa found stability as a global citizen. Now she\u2019s determined to pay it forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Economic turmoil drove Tsitsi Makufa\u2019s family out of Zimbabwe, and the instability they felt there seemed to follow them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy family moved to the Kingdom of Eswatini when I was 10 to find better stability,\u201d Makufa said. \u201cI went to four primary schools and two kindergarten schools before starting high school, making high school my seventh school and the longest time spent in one place. I was always the new kid or the kid from a country with an inflationary currency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything changed after Makufa enrolled at Waterford Kamhlaba, United World College of Southern Africa in Eswatini, part of a network of 18 international baccalaureate-granting high schools from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n