SCHOOL FEES BURSARIES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

When it became known that there would be a Fair Trade certification process, and that the benefits of it would come by way of a premium, Joint Body members were required to draw up a Work Plan detailing how the premium would be spent.
Among other project lined up was a suggestion to pay School fees for needy students.

The background to this decision is that there are students who are struggling to raise school fees because of the following possible reasons:
∑ They have lost parents to HIV/AIDS
∑ Parents are poor such that they can not raise money to meet Secondary school education requirements.
∑ Some families have too many children who are at secondary school such that they choose to support some and not all.

∑ More importantly there are students who are very intelligent and we feel there is need to support and encourage them to do even better as they are tomorrow’s possible leaders.

The primary pool for this project is Satemwa Full Primary School, a school that gets infrastructural support from the company through its Corporate Social Responsibility programme.
Then we would go school, to workers, and even the community through Village Development Committees to do a fact finding exercise to establish eligible beneficiaries.

On whether this would encourage pupils to stay in school, the Headmaster of Satemwa School said, ‘In fact this would motivate pupils to even work harder knowing they would likely be supported financially.

It is also expected that this programme would bring up a sense of ownership among workers. This would in turn see an improvement in quality of our product, the preservation of the environment e.t.c.

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