Nyando NGCDF Gives shs 39.7M Bursary to over 10,000 needy students

 

A Principal of a secondary school receives a cheque from one of the officials of the Nyando NGCDF during the disbursement of Bursary cheques to needy students-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo 

By Dickson Odhiambo

April 20, 2023

Nyando NGCDF Gives shs 39.7M Bursary to over 10,000 needy students

ABOUT 10,000 students both in Secondary and Tertiary institutions have benefitted from shs 39.7 Million from Nyando National Government Constituency Development Funds {NGCDF} bursary disbursement.

The Nyando National Government Constituency Development Funds Committee Chairman Joseph Odada says the disbursement has been done to take care of part of next term’s school’s for the needy but bright students hailing from Nyando constituency and schooling at various secondary schools together with institutions of higher learning across the country.

Odada says some of the schools within the Nyando Constituency mostly day schools have benefitted immensely from the disbursement to cater for the students’ fees.

Addressing parents and head Teachers of secondary schools within Nyando constituency whose schools have received the disbursement, the Nyando National Government Constituency Development Funds Committee Chairman said one of the schools have received more than shs 1 million during the disbursement.

He says Lela Mixed Secondary school has receive the highest share of the disbursement at shs 1,946,000 that will benefit needy students who are schooling there and applied for the bursary.

Odada has appealed to the Head Teachers and the Principals of schools within Nyando and those schools outside the constituency where students from the constituency are schooling not to send away students, adding that the funds disbursed so far can help push schools to pay Bills and do other activities that require funds.

He further urges parents to play their greater responsibility of paying school fees and supplement what the Nyando National Government Constituency Development Funds has provided.

He says those in day schools have received shs 3,300 while those in boarding schools have managed to receive shs 5,300 each.

Odada has further appealed to students to keep on studying smartly while at home during the two weeks holiday before resuming learning next term that begins in May.

“We want to ask our students to continue studying while at home during the Holiday for the first term as this will greatly help them in doing their work given by the teachers as well as revising for in readiness for next term,” Odada says.