Faculty: Arts
Program: International Relations
Year: 2024
Country: Tanzania
Bahati is described as a unique individual amongst her peers who continues to strive for holistic excellence with positivity. In secondary school, she took part in her student council, participated in the Young Scientist Competitions with her influential project that won in the social sciences category, and took part in FEMA Organization’s Youth Advisory Board. She is a recent high school graduate of the International School of Tanganyika in Tanzania where she also took on various leadership roles. She led Mtoni Community Service group that helped disabled children with physical and mental growth, and volunteered in rural public schools to teach Economics, Commerce and English to students. Bahati was also a recipient of the prestigious Yale Young Global Scholars Program scholarship. As a result, she had the opportunity to spend a summer at Yale University to learn about sustainable development and social entrepreneurship. Bahati’s sense of responsibility and initiative, led her to create an entrepreneurial foundation called WELU to meet the needs of the marginalized poor in her community. WELU aims to provide income to participants by raising chickens and distributing their eggs to be sold in the market.
Bahati has great dreams of becoming a successful social entrepreneur and learn better ways to utilize resources available in her home country of Tanzania to fight poverty and promote education. She hopes to gain the tools and connections necessary to achieve her goal at UBC whilst discovering Canadian culture.