The Likoni Scholarship Fund awards scholarships to bright, hard working Kenyan secondary students from needy families within Likoni to ensure that the community’s talented youth have the education they need in order to reach their potential. Weekly mentoring sessions focused on decision making, skill building and career development prepare the students for life after school.
The Likoni Scholarship Fund (LSF) works to increase the number of Likoni students who are able to attend and complete secondary school, by providing scholarships to dedicated students from families that can’t afford school fees.
In Likoni, Kenya unemployment is high, wages are low and Secondary education is expensive, costing an average of 27,000 Kenyan Shillings, or $400, per student per year. Few Likoni families can afford these fees, so most students end their education after primary school, when they are about 14 years of age. With greater access to education, more Likoni students will become qualified for good jobs and university admission.
Number of Scholarships
In its first year, 2007, Likoni Scholarship Fund sponsored seven students, but will grow to 10times the original size to sponsor 70 students in 2011.
Scholarship Worth
The exact amount is determined by the cost of each school and the amount each family is able to contribute. The scholarships include fees, uniforms, books, bags, shoes, lunch for day students or boarding fees for boarders, school trips, and weekly mentoring.
Selection Criteria
The foundation selects Secondary students from 8th grade classes at Likoni’s public primary schools and partner with families to pay educational expenses. Every scholarship is need-based.
Since 2002, public primary education in Kenya has been paid for by the government and is available at a relatively low cost to families. However, public primary schools have become disgracefully overcrowded, often accommodating 60 children per classroom. The foundation sponsors the children of Twaayf Children’s Home to attend St Kevin’s Hill Academy, Likoni’s top primary academy, to ensure that they receive the best quality education.
About the Hatua Likoni
Hatua Likoni is a community based development NGO dedicated to alleviating under-education and poverty among youth in Likoni, Kenya. Through education, mentoring and career guidance, Hatua Likoni fosters personal and professional development among young people, while promoting economic development and civil society within Likoni.
The Likoni Library will offer Likoni students a quiet, well-resourced learning and study environment. Even though the library is still in its final phases of development, the building is already crowded every evening with students eager to make use of this place to study. Likoni students are hungry for a better learning
environment
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Friday, 17 February 2012
Sankofa National Scholarship Program in Ghana 2011/2012
The Sankofa National Scholarship Program (SNSP) is sponsored by Sankofa International Youth Ghana (SIYG), a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Ghana, West Africa. SIYG falls under the umbrella of Sankofa International, Inc., a NGO based in Washington, D.C.
The SNSP offer students from Ghana the opportunity to register for a full scholarship (junior high school, high school, technical school, vocational school, or tertiary institution). Registration is required to be selected. The scholarship covers fees, books and supplies, accommodations, and pocket money.
Scholarship Programs
The Program scholarship recipient will receive one of the following:
All scholarships range from one to four years, two terms each year. Scholarship amounts have been calculated, in advance, to include fees, books and supplies, accommodations, and pocket money. Calculations have taken into consideration that some schools have more than two terms.
The scholarship amount will be increased by 3% every year to cover cost of living increases. Any increase above 3% must be paid by the scholarship recipient. See below for example:
Year 1 Scholarship Payout Is 100 Ghana Cedis
Year 2 Scholarship Payout Is 103 Ghana Cedis
Year 3 Scholarship Payout Is 107 Ghana Cedis
Year 4 Scholarship Payout Is 111 Ghana Cedis
Total 421 Ghana Cedis
Registration Deadlines
Registrations for the Sankofa National Scholarship Program (Cycle 2) will be accepted from September 16 – November 6, 2011. See below for registration period for your location
The mission of Sankofa is to help needy Africans become self-sustaining, and it has been doing so since 1993. As of April 2010, there are five full-time and two dozen part-time scholarship students. Based on Sankofa’s experiences, most students in Ghana are struggling to make payments. Therefore, to expand the Sankofa Scholarship Program and provide financial relief for more students, in 2010, Sankofa established The Sankofa National Scholarship Program (SNSP), under Sankofa International Youth Ghana, a NGO based in Ghana. Under the SNSP, individuals can register to win full scholarships at the senior secondary, vocational, technical, and tertiary school levels.
More details at: http://www.sankofaintl.org/
The SNSP offer students from Ghana the opportunity to register for a full scholarship (junior high school, high school, technical school, vocational school, or tertiary institution). Registration is required to be selected. The scholarship covers fees, books and supplies, accommodations, and pocket money.
Scholarship Programs
The Program scholarship recipient will receive one of the following:
- Junior high school scholarship in Ghana
- Senior high school scholarship in Ghana
- Technical school scholarship in Ghana
- Vocational school scholarship in Ghana
- Tertiary institution scholarship in Ghana
All scholarships range from one to four years, two terms each year. Scholarship amounts have been calculated, in advance, to include fees, books and supplies, accommodations, and pocket money. Calculations have taken into consideration that some schools have more than two terms.
The scholarship amount will be increased by 3% every year to cover cost of living increases. Any increase above 3% must be paid by the scholarship recipient. See below for example:
Year 1 Scholarship Payout Is 100 Ghana Cedis
Year 2 Scholarship Payout Is 103 Ghana Cedis
Year 3 Scholarship Payout Is 107 Ghana Cedis
Year 4 Scholarship Payout Is 111 Ghana Cedis
Total 421 Ghana Cedis
Registration Deadlines
Registrations for the Sankofa National Scholarship Program (Cycle 2) will be accepted from September 16 – November 6, 2011. See below for registration period for your location
- September 16-18, 2011 Greater Accra GNAT Hall/Teachers’s Hall Accra City Campus (Legon)
- September 23 -25, 2011 Northern Teacher’s Hall (Main Hall) Tamale
- September 30 – October 2, 2011 Brong Ahafo Municipal Assembly Hall Sunyani – Opposite Municipal Police Station
- October 7-9, 2011 Ashanti GNAT Hall/Teacher”s Hall Kumasi-Amakom Near Grace Baptist Church
- October 14-16, 2011 Western Parish Hall Star of the Sea Cathedral Church
- October 21-23, 2011 Central Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly Cape Coast Kotokoraba
- October 28-30, 2011 Eastern Apenteng Hall Methodist Church (Koforidua)
- November 4-6, 2011 Volta Municipal Assembly Hall Ho
The mission of Sankofa is to help needy Africans become self-sustaining, and it has been doing so since 1993. As of April 2010, there are five full-time and two dozen part-time scholarship students. Based on Sankofa’s experiences, most students in Ghana are struggling to make payments. Therefore, to expand the Sankofa Scholarship Program and provide financial relief for more students, in 2010, Sankofa established The Sankofa National Scholarship Program (SNSP), under Sankofa International Youth Ghana, a NGO based in Ghana. Under the SNSP, individuals can register to win full scholarships at the senior secondary, vocational, technical, and tertiary school levels.
More details at: http://www.sankofaintl.org/
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