Faculty: Science
Program: Biochemistry
Year: 2017
Country: Tanzania
Growing up in Tanzania in a strong traditional community, and recently graduated from a very multi-cultural boarding school at UWC Robert Bosch (RB) College in Frankfurt, Germany, Fainess is recognized by all of her teachers as a “responsible, realistic, mature, disciplined and appreciative” student. Following her passion for empowering young girls, she co-founded a small organization called “Child Vision Foundation” where she met up with children from all over Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania to teach them how to read and write and encourage them to continue their studies. She carried over her passion for education and helping young students even in Germany, where she volunteered her time at “Kick of Girls”, a soccer activity with refugee girls.
Through her Bachelor’s degree at UBC, Fainess hopes to build a career in a field that would help with women empowerment in Tanzania and around Africa. Coming from a family where the expectation for a girl was limited to early marriage, she states that “I would like to see women go around exploring the world and also having and creating ambitions,” and that she “can be an example to the girls in [her] country.”