Author: CLUBHOUSE International

“The Originals”: The First Ever CLUBHOUSE Scholarship Recipients “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough.”- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Recently, I was going back and forth with my good friend and director of CLUBHOUSE in Zimbabwe, Mr. Nyasha Matavire, trying to find an important letter we had attached to an email a few years … Continue reading HOW TWO BECAME TEN… AND THEN SOME.

In September of 2012, CLUBHOUSE International gave out its first ever set os scholarships to ten students from Sheni and Rujeko Primary Schools in Dangamvura, Mutare. While we can’t pay for all the students we would want to because of financial constraints, we also introduced ‘CLUBHOUSE Ambassadors’; students who, while not receiving a scholarship, are … Continue reading INTRODUCING: THE CLASS OF 2016/17!

On December 27th 2015, the Sigma Lambda Beta Alumni Network of West Michigan hosted their second Annual ‘Bowling for a Cause’ event, proceeds from which were donated to our 2016 Scholarship fund. Money raised from the event, coming in at just under $300, will make up the bulk of our first term scholarship funds. Beyond … Continue reading BOWLING FUNDRAISER THANKS AND REPORT

Greetings to all our friends in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area! We would like to invite you to our second annual Bowling Fundraiser! This year, we are at Wengers Bowl on Sunday, December 27th, from 3pm-6pm.Games are $20/person (unlimited shows/games) and 70% of the proceeds go to the CLUBHOUSE Scholarships for 2016.(Join the event page … Continue reading JOIN US FOR ‘BOWLING FOR A CAUSE 2015!” (DEC 27, 3PM)

Are you doing any shopping on Amazon? Would you like to donate to CLUBHOUSE without spending an additional cent? In light of the American Thanksgiving holiday that has recently just passed, several shopping ‘holidays’ have been birthed, the least of which is not Cyber Monday! If you are going to be shopping online today- make … Continue reading DO CYBER MONDAY FOR A CAUSE!

By Mr. Musa Milupi- Executive Director (CLUBHOUSE USA) Sport has the power to change the world in way that little else can. The words of Nelson Mandela will always be a powerful reality, as seen in Mutare with the annual festival that saw CLUBHOUSE debut girls’ soccer with a game between Sheni and Rujeko primary … Continue reading SHIFTING THE GOALS: PUTTING GIRLS’ SOCCER ON A LEVEL FIELD

This Saturday, September 26 2015, CLUBHOUSE International co-hosts ‘100 000 Poets for Change- Grand Rapids’ together with community revilatization organization, LINC Up. The event is part of an international effort (570 events in 100+ countries on the same day!!) to artistically adress matters of ‘social justice, peace, and sustainability. While our primary mission is community development in impoverished … Continue reading 100 000 POETS FOR CHANGE- GRAND RAPIDS

By Mr. Shingi Mavima (CLUBHOUSE International Director) Sentiments on the 2015 CLUBHOUSE Festival ‘The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”- Mark Twain I have always felt I owed an overwhelming debt to Dangamvura, the (subjectively) idyllic Mutare neighborhood in which I … Continue reading THE OTHER IMPORTANT DAY…

The Importance of Re-Evaluating our Views and Treatment of Disability By Nyasha Matavire (Exec Director, CLUBHOUSE Zimbabwe)Sometimes when I make my Mutare trips to visit the kids on my own, I go by bus and travelling by bus in Zimbabwe is quite an experience. You encounter a lot of things and sometimes you have to endure … Continue reading A SOCIETY’S HANDICAP…

(By International Executive Director, Shingi Mavima) Congrats to our incredble co-founder and director of marketing, Musa Milupi! I first met Musa some seven years ago. Already three years into my college career, I was already established in my involvement around campus when he first came to Grand Valley State University. I had been a founding … Continue reading A SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. MUSA MILUPI