From 150 Rejections to Building a Community: My Journey to Finding Real Opportunities

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 until much later that I understood the problem. It wasn't my passion that was lacking; it was my precision. My applications were basic. I wasn't speaking the language of the opportunities, and I didn't understand how to align my ideas with what the selectors were looking for.

That experience lit a fire in me. I realized that if I was struggling this much, there had to be thousands of other young people facing the same silent frustration.

That realization gave birth to ehub.forezava.org.

The hub is the bridge I wish I had in 2019. It’s a space designed to give youth like us a real-time view of the opportunities floating around us—grants, fellowships, and competitions—that we usually miss. But more than just listing them, we focus on the "how." We provide the important tips, the frameworks, and the insights needed to actually secure those opportunities. We teach you how to avoid the 150 rejections and land the one "Yes."

My story isn't unique because I succeeded; it's unique because I failed loudly and learned publicly.

If you want to understand the full scope of that journey—the raw moments, the lessons learned in the trenches, and the experiences that shaped this hub—I invite you to take a deeper dive into my life. You can read my story in my ebook, talesofmkavu.forezava.org, available for just 250 shillings.

Or, if you’re ready to stop applying blindly and want to start learning strategically, reach out to me directly. Let’s turn your passion into a fundable reality.

Visit ehub.forezava.org today and let’s grow together.