Friends of River Ezava-Forezava

When I look back at where this journey started, I don’t see a success story. I see a young, brilliant social entrepreneur who was full of passion but had no map. Like many of you, I had the ideas and the drive. I wanted to change my community. But I quickly hit a wall that felt insurmountable: I couldn’t access the funding or the learning opportunities I desperately needed to grow. For years, I worked in the dark, letting my lived experiences guide me. What started as a small spark back in 2015 has, through sheer stubbornness and a lot of hard lessons, slowly become the cornerstone of my work and ambition today. But the road here wasn't smooth. It was paved with rejection slips. I will never forget 2019. That year became a brutal classroom for me. I was so hungry for a breakthrough that I wrote over 150 proposals. One hundred and fifty. I spent countless nights researching, typing, and praying over these applications. And one by one, they came back as rejections. It wasn't unti...