By Politico Staff Writer
President of Kono Students Union (KONSU) Kenziah Fears has expressed her commitment to ensuring that female students of the district are empowered not only through formal education but skills that could make them market-ready.
Fears in an interview with Politico said she intends to include skills training symposia in their summer school programme curriculum in a bid to empower more women.
She explained that the seminar she intends to introduce in the curriculum is aimed at emboldening young women and girls to nurture their self-esteem and self-worth so that they can actively participate in influencing decision-making and implementation in the country.
Amongst other things that she intends to achieve is widening the Union’s scholarship scheme, stressing that it will be awarded to deserving students. Fears assured that she will ensure the scholarship scheme is implemented according to its established guiding principles and that it would be further guided by a self-articulated principle of not leaving out any deserving colleague for parochial considerations.
She encouraged those who have been supporting the KONSU scholarship scheme to continue doing so , particularly encouraging other philanthropists to join in.
Sharing her experience in politics, the newly elected president recalled how she beat her main contender from the University of Makeni UNIMAK, stating that she had three hundred and three votes whilst her opponent had one hundred and seventy-four votes.
Fears is now KONSU’s second female president since the Union was established in 1964, the elections were held on January 2nd, 2024 at the KONSU secretariat in Koidu City.
The President is a qualifying BSc Honours Business Information and Technology student at the Njala University, Mokonde campus.
She stated that upon completion of her course, she intends “to focus on a computer programming system that will attempt to fix the myriad of broken systems in our business information and technology systems to aid both students and businesses to make breakthroughs in their daily financial and business computing services at district and national levels”.
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