{"id":1883,"date":"2016-02-12T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2016-09-21T15:26:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:26:28","slug":"givers-boost-kengen-education-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/givers-boost-kengen-education-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGivers\u201d Boost KenGen Education Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eleven more secondary school students are benefiting from KenGen scholarships<\/a> this year, thanks to the KenGen Givers and partners. This brings to 31 the number of needy students who have joined various secondary schools countrywide on the KenGen Education Scholarship program.<\/p>\n

The Foundation in February announced eight extra scholarships to be funded directly by KenGen Givers Fund. Two more scholarships were awarded by our partner, Bamburi Cement to benefit primary schools that excelled in the pilot GIC program.<\/p>\n

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The KenGen Education Scholarship Awards 2015. This year, the number of beneficiaries has increased thanks to the Giver Initiative.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Click here to view the complete list of beneficiaries<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The KenGen Scholarship program was launched in 2005 to provide financial support to disadvantaged, bright students pursuing both secondary and university education in areas around our facilities. The program celebrated its 10th anniversary last year and boasts more than 500 beneficiaries. The scholarship provides full school fees for the entire secondary and university education. \u201cThis is a great boost from the givers coming soon after celebrating ten years of the scholarship program, \u2019says KenGen Foundation Managing Trustee Mike Njeru, adding that the sup-port for the Giver Initiative from the staff has been commendable. He noted that at the end of January 2016, some 566 employees had subscribed to the initiative.<\/p>\n

The Employee Giver Initiative<\/a> Fund was established in May 2015 and was soon rolled out to all the areas of operation. It is fully funded by KenGen employees who give their contributions through the check-off system. The eight additional scholarships werre distributed to all areas and subjected to the company\u2019s selection process conducted by the area CSR committees. School boards selected the two Bamburi Cement scholarships.<\/p>\n

Mr. Njeru noted that the Foundation had introduced a new and open system of awarding the scholarships to ensure they benefit the most deserving cases. The students are selected from the list of applicants by the liaison officers in collaboration with area District Education Officers and community stakeholder committees. The candidates are then interviewed by the area CSR Committee before the names are forwarded to the Foundation whose role is to process the fees and monitor the students\u2019 performance throughout the scholarship period.<\/p>\n

Support to education both in scholarships and infrastructure is one of the Foundation\u2019s main areas of focus. Kudos to the KenGen GIVERS for this great boost.<\/p>\n

Follow us on Twitter through\u00a0<\/i>@KenGen_Foundatn<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and like our\u00a0<\/i>Facebook page<\/i><\/a>\u00a0for more updates.<\/i><\/p>\n

–Ernest Nyamasyo<\/a>, Communication Officer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eleven more secondary school students are benefiting from KenGen scholarships this year, thanks to the KenGen Givers and partners. This brings to 31 the number of needy students who have joined various secondary schools countrywide on the KenGen Education Scholarship program. The Foundation in February announced eight extra scholarships to be funded directly by KenGen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,53,1],"tags":[68,67,76,45,46,47,79,75,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/2562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}