{"id":2981,"date":"2017-10-18T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2017-10-18T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:15:51","slug":"a-different-life-experience-for-a-kengen-scholarship-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/a-different-life-experience-for-a-kengen-scholarship-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Life Experience for a KenGen Scholarship Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"
Campus life is never without challenges, especially when you come from a humble background. Gone are the days of free meals at the mess, when senior comrades welcomed \u2018freshers\u2019 into the system.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, the competition to join a university\u2026any university, and complete the full course is a do-or-die affair, despite the current strained economic situation and a possible future with minimum employment prospects.<\/p>\n
The temptation of taking loans from the Higher Education Loans Board might overwhelm students, but the excitement is always short-lived as the demands of re-payments spill over years into the young graduates\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n
But for the university students under the KenGen Education Scholarships, the story is different.<\/p>\n
For David Kimanzi, a late evening phone call in early May 2014 from KenGen changed his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving just completed my form four exam at Makima Secondary School, I was at home assisting my parents when I received athephone call that has gone a long way in defining my education and perhaps even giving me chance to count my dreams as valid. It was good news that I had been awarded a scholarship due to my performance. My financial worries on how to get through university had\u00a0been\u00a0solved”, said David.<\/p>\n