“I want to run my own firm one day, and this is my opportunity,” beamed Fridah Karuitha who attended AIC Moi Girls Samburu. “Getting the scholarship is a privilege and I thank God for it,” she added.
Equity Bank university sponsorship program rolled out in 1998 with the aim of empowering young academically gifted scholars by supporting their access to education in public universities in Kenya, as well as equipping them with leadership skills. The sponsorship is awarded to the top boy and top girl in each year’s KCSE exams in the districts where the bank operates.
The objective is to develop a generation that will think globally be inspired to fight poverty in the African continent, embrace sustainable development, improve living standards and coexist peacefully as a people while being fully committed to giving back to society; servant leaders.
The bank believes that by getting quality education along some of the best brains in the world, the scholars will get global exposure.
The program runs up to 18 months between secondary school completion and enrollment to university. It rewards the top boy and top girl in every district in Kenya where Equity Bank operates. So far, the program has benefited more than 1,290 scholars who have interned at Equity Bank before joining the universities and also during university holidays.
In cognizance that these are our best scholars in Kenya, and in recognition that the country is still in the process of developing quality teaching facilities at the higher level, Equity Bank has been encouraging the scholars to seek admission to some of the best universities in the world.
The bank believes that by getting quality education along some of the best brains in the world, these scholars will get global exposure, access to education resources and enhance their leadership skills, in readiness to come back and contribute in shaping the social economic develop of Africa, said Dr. James Mwangi.
