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Written on July 25th, 2010 by adminno shouts
It’s a major milestone for us: thanks to your help the LBW Trust has just reached its 2010 goal of supporting 100 disadvantaged students in India, Pakistan, South Africa and now also Uganda.
In the first half of the year the LBW Trust has taken on the fees of 20 new students at the Prerana Nurture Merit college in Bangalore, India, where gifted and needy students are assisted in their chosen academic careers. We are looking forward to a September visit to Sydney from Piroja Mehta from the college.
We have also funded tertiary scholarships for ten students from the village of Namwendwa, Uganda; through our new partnership with the Australian-Ugandan NGO One Village. Our congratulations to the Ugandan students, including Helen Salaamu, Alex Issabirye, Pascal Mageni, Zakalia Semakula, Geoffrey Kawayo, Fred Wanala and Otala Awali. These students have now commenced studies in teaching. Alex Luddu and Julius Mbeeko are being trained in brick laying and Joshua Mugabe is doing a motor vehicle course.
They join our existing scholarship students at the Vikash Educational Trust in Orissa, India; at Namal College and SPADO (Sustainable Peace and Development Organisation) in Pakistan; and at various institutions in South Africa.
Written on July 8th, 2010 by adminno shouts
The LBW Trust is supporting the education of students at Imran Khan’s Namal College in Pakistan – this video tells the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4lVAeiFd0k
Imran Khan
Written on February 16th, 2010 by adminno shouts
Congratulations to our student Tinashe Ruswa who has just received a terrific and well-deserved honour.
Tinashe graduated from the University of Western Cape late last year and he has been awarded the prestigious ICT Student of the Year Award by the Computer Society of South Africa.
You can read more about Tinashe’s incredible story here.
Written on February 16th, 2010 by adminone shout
The LBW Trust is now supporting the tertiary education of 100 students in South Africa, India, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Our hope is that when they graduate, these young men and women will play an important part in improving the future of their communities and nations.
Written on February 15th, 2010 by adminno shouts
S C Choudhury, who works with our NGO partners the Vikash Educational Charitable Trust (VECT) in India, sends these pictures of students receiving their scholarship cheques from LBW in October.
He writes: “Please find a few photos of distribution of Scholarship cheques to students who received it on 2nd October, an auspicious day for all in India. Inspite of heavy rains and a bus strike, 8 students turned up to receive the cheques from the hands of Dr Dhanada Misra, SC Choudhury and Meera Choudhury ,Trustees of Vikash Educational Charitable Trust. The boys came alone and the girls were accompanied with their parents/guardians. There was a feeling of welcome, joy and bonhomie. The facilitators of the Trust served cold drinks and sweets to the students and the parents. These students are from a really poor strata of the society and bright ones at that. They are studying ENGG and Medicine in the best colleges of the state. They are sure to make their career, uplift their families and contribute back to the society.
We feel greatly indebted and humbled by the munificience of the LBW Trust and its Trustees. We hope our association would grow stronger in years to come.”
Written on January 10th, 2010 by adminno shouts
We are delighted to hear this week that two of the first students the LBW Trust supported when it started in 2006 are now directors of a company in Zimbabwe. Pride Mafede (Electrical Engineering) and Miraculous Simanga Elisha (Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) in Entrepreneurship) completed their degrees in South Africa with the LBW Trust’s financial support. Now their company, T.F. Holdings Zimbabwe, is fulfilling a contract secured by tender to wire 10 houses built for workers at a gold mine.
