By Bampia James Bundu
The Institute of Management, Accounting and Tourism (IMAT) has awarded full tuition scholarships to ten of their students and 60 pupils from twenty-five government-assisted senior secondary schools for the 2013/14 academic year through their community support programme.
Director of IMAT, Amadu Justice Bah, said the award was the first in a series of planned scholarships for less privileged students, adding that the awardees comprised blind students and those with outstanding academic performance from underprivileged background.
He said the gesture was a show of the organisation’s passion to reward excellence in students who worked extremely hard in their academic pursuit. He said the granting of scholarships was about shaping the country’s future through education, which could, at the same time, serve as an investment in tomorrow’s leaders.
Bah concluded that since its establishment in June 2008, IMAT College had enriched the lives of many students in the country as well as in the sub region. He said they were still committed to helping eradicate illiteracy with their own little help being rendered to underprivileged but ambitious students.
He congratulated the beneficiaries for having worked hard to merit the scholarship, and implored them not to relax, but rather to work harder as they pursued their dreams of higher education.
Moussa Magassouba, a representative of IMAT College, said the gesture was testament to his organisation’s commitment to enhancing academic pursuit of persons with disability and financial challenges which he said was unwavering.
He encouraged other students to be committed to their academic work as that would not only help them as individuals but would also give them the opportunity to benefit from IMAT College’s scholarship scheme.
One of the beneficiaries and a student of the Prince of Wales senior secondary school assured IMAT that they would make good use of the opportunity given them, adding “this will go a long way to making our pursuit of higher education easier and comfortable.”
(C) Politico 19/11/13
