At least 24 students from less privileged families in Thika Constituency have benefitted from KSh 930,870 bursaries under the sponsorship of Thika Trust Fund (THEFTU).
Theftu is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students in Thika Town constituency who are unable to fund their studies.
The fund supports exceptional students in tertiary institutions through scholarships.
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Among them are from Thika slums such as Kiganjo and Kiandutu and whose parents can hardly bear the burden of expensive higher learning education.
Speaking at a Thika hotel when she issued cheques to the bright students, alongside their parents, former Thika MP Alice Wambui Ng’ang’a who doubles as the fund’s patron, said that so far, 185 students have benefited from the initiative that started in 2014.
Wambui said that so far, since commencement of the program, 25 students have been able to complete their university studies without paying a penny and are now fully engaged in positive nation building activities.
She added that five others who have been fully sponsored through the fund are continuing with their education in different universities.
On Friday, August 30, 16 more students from Thika Sub County were adopted in the initiative and will be taken through the university education free of charge relieving their parents the heavy burden they have not been able to bear.
“I am thanking God for the good time He has given me with these children. They are bright in their different capacities and none of them, since we started have let us down. They have been scoring higher grades and we are also committed to linking them to employers as a way of giving them a firm foundation to not only mold them for the future but to also prepare them to become leaders and persons of noble character in our society,” she said.The former legislator said she initiated the programme after realising that though the bursary fund through NG-CDF was substantial, it was not sufficient for all the deserving students.
The MP urged well-wishers to continue supporting the less fortunate to go for their dreams.
“If we join hands and willingly endevour to support the poor achieve their dreams, Kenya will change for good. We can partner with the government to assist even a higher percentage of the poor whose dreams of going to universities have been shattered by lack,” she added.Angela Wanjiku, a mother to Trecy Waitherero who has been sponsored through her secondary education lauded the initiative for helping her daughter go for her dreams with ease.
“I am happy this afternoon to have received another sponsorship to university level. As a parent, we have been relieved off many burdens because we could not raise the funds,” she said.Ian Mwenda, a continuing Bachelor of Medicine, Surgery student at University of Nairobi and who has been studying courtesy of the fund acclaimed the initiative saying that through the funds, his poor parent could not have managed.
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