Calista Uzokwe, a Nigerian IT professional and founder, started Smardemia after searching for scholarships in many countries. The opportunities were real. They were buried under old posts, copied pages and deadlines that had already closed.
The problem we saw
Students were losing time and hope on information that was out of date, copied from other sites, or never checked. Many only found out a deadline had passed after they had prepared an application.
The decision we made
Every listing must link to the provider's official page, and every page shows when we last checked it. When a deadline passes, the listing is marked or removed.
The platform we built
Smardemia is a free guide to scholarships and to the countries that offer them. It is built in Nigeria, for African students.
We would rather have fewer listings that are all true than thousands that nobody has checked.