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Sarah is the Founder and CEO of Kafika House in Tanzania. Kafika House (formerly The Plaster House) is a high-love, low-cost rehabilitative surgery program in northern Tanzania. Founded over 15 years ago in 2008,
Kafika House provides a safe, loving home away from home for children receiving pre- and post-operative care and rehabilitation for a surgically correctable disability.
Sarah will use the $5,000 Fellowship grant towards completing a Finance for Non-Financial Managers short course through the Melbourne Business School. Completing this course will allow Sarah to learn about evaluating investment proposals, understand financial reports, budgeting and costing, which will further her leadership of Kafika House.
This support also leaves Kafika House's donor funds to enable healing journeys for Tanzanian children living with disabilities.
We would like to thank the Old Lauristonians who submitted applications. Assessing each application was not an easy task for the OLA Fellowship Committee. This is the fourth year of the OLA Fellowship, and we are thrilled with the growing interest in this prestigious award.
A selection panel, consisting of members of the OLA Committee and representatives from the School Executive, reviewed all applications in line with Fellowship selection criteria and then interviewed selected candidates before awarding the Fellowship to Sarah. We are delighted that in March 2025, Sarah will return from Africa to attend the course at Melbourne Business School. During this visit, we look forward to her speaking at Lauriston's International Women's Day event and it is on this auspicious occasion that the Fellowship medal will be presented to Sarah.
