{"id":1891,"date":"2016-02-16T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2016-09-21T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:25:53","slug":"kengen-foundation-wraps-up-form-one-selection-for-2016-education-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/kengen-foundation-wraps-up-form-one-selection-for-2016-education-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"KenGen Foundation Wraps Up Form One Selection for 2016 Education Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KenGen Education Scholarship beneficiaries during the Annual Mentorship Session 2015. The Foundation is now sponsoring 8 more students courtesy of the Giver Initiative.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The KenGen Foundation has concluded this year\u2019s secondary schools education scholarships selection with a final list of 31 needy students who will benefit from fully paid for opportunities to further their studies.<\/p>\n

Working closely with the area CSR committees, liaison officers and the local administration under the Foundation supervision, rigorous background checks on the applicants was made to ascertain those who were awarded the scholarships were indeed deserving of the limited golden chance.<\/p>\n

“Selecting the newest class of scholars is always an exciting time for the Foundation for we believe those chosen are leaders who will make a significant impact in their communities and the nation in the very near future\u201d says Mike Njeru, Managing Trustee of KenGen Foundation adding that seeing the continued growth of the KenGen Scholarship program has been very rewarding towards advancing the Company\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n

READ<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cGivers\u201d Boost KenGen Education Scholarships<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The selection process is highly competitive, with up to 20 students chosen each year.<\/p>\n

This year however, the Foundation was able to increase the scholarships by ten to have an intake of 30 recipients. Eight of the new scholarships were enabled by the financial assistance of the KenGen Employee Givers while two were from our partnership with Bamburi Cement Ltd. <\/p>\n

The\u00a0scholarship program covers tuition fees for the four years that the students will be in school. The beneficiaries are usually bright students from poor backgrounds who cannot manage to raise the tuition fees for secondary school education.<\/p>\n

KenGen scholarship program started 10 years ago with an initial 14 students. So far over Kshs. 600 million has been invested by the Company in scholarships and education infrastructure support for institutions from all over the country. Over 500 students have to date gone through the scholarship programme.<\/p>\n

The mission of the KenGen Education Program is to provide scholarships and improve learning facilities to enable lifelong\u00a0enrichment opportunities to students whose humble backgrounds may deny them a chance to realize their dreams. Those who go through the scholarship program experience the difference which quality education can do in changing one\u2019s live.<\/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":"

The KenGen Foundation has concluded this year\u2019s secondary schools education scholarships selection with a final list of 31 needy students who will benefit from fully paid for opportunities to further their studies. Working closely with the area CSR committees, liaison officers and the local administration under the Foundation supervision, rigorous background checks on the applicants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,53,1],"tags":[66,68,67,76,45,46,47,79,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891"}],"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=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}