A total of fifty pupils and students country wide have benefited from grants from the Ishmael Beah Foundation to improve on their education.
10 students from the universities will receive a grant of three millions Leones each, 10 students from vocational institutes will receive one million eight hundred thousand Leones each, 18 Secondary school pupils will receive nine hundred Leones and 12 Primary school pupils will receive six hundred Leones each.
At the handing over ceremony, at the Community Advocacy and Development Movement (CADEM) office in Aberdeen, CADEM Executive Director Leslie Nestor Mboka said that his organization is implementing the Ishmael Beah foundation grant.
He added that selection of grantees was done on academic excellence and on humanitarian sentiment. Mboka stated that two of the grantees Tigi Dankay from the Army Junior Secondary School and Ya Kaday Kanu of Richard Allen School in Kissy were awarded the grants because they are physically challenged and ready to learn.
The Executive Director reiterated that they also took into consideration gender issues when selecting as a result more women were incorporated.
Mboka maintained that continuation of the grants will be based on the funding and on academic excellence of the grantees. He noted that the objective of the grant is to reform young people and develop them to make them self reliant.
He stated the total amount that will be given out is about seventy million and five hundred thousand leones for 50 pupils and students.
One of the beneficiaries, Pascal Masuba a second year student at the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM) said that right from his primary and secondary school stage he has been making a name in the country through public exams.
He added that he was happy to be selected, stating that he believes in hardworking and perseverance in his school work.
Masuba noted that education is not magic, calling on other students to work hard and desist from violence
By Abibatu Kamara
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