By Septimus Senessie in Kono
The Sahr Silvanus Sinneh Scholarship Trust Fund over the weekend awarded a scholarship of Le 150,000 each to eighteen junior secondary schools in Nimiyama and Tankoro Chiefdoms in Kono District. The scholarship will cover tuition fees for one year.
Beneficiaries of the scholarship were mostly girls selected from the Sewafeh Secondary School in Jaiama Sewafe, UMC Girls’ Secondary School, Ansarul Girls’ Secondary School and the Apostle Bona Secondary School all in Koidu City.
Awarding the scholarships, the focal person for the trust fund in the district, David Aiah Moripeh, who also works as news editor at the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) Kono told the beneficiaries that their benefactor, Sahr Silvanus Sinneh is a resident in the United States of America and that because he believed in education and in helping the needy, he was putting aside every month some percentage from his hard-earn salary to help the less-privileged school-going children in his district.
Moripeh told politico that the beneficiaries were chosen on the basis of their academic excellence in their respective schools coupled with their moral conduct in their communities.
Moripeh said since the establishment of the trust fund in 2010, they have provided scholarships for over 40 pupils in the Nimiyama Chiefdom and incentives for community volunteer teachers in their different schools. He told the beneficiaries that because they were selected from among thousands of pupils in their schools, they must lay premium on their schooling and to avoid all activities that were distracting them from their studies.
Sounding jubilant and elated, Mabinty Mansaray, a JSS One pupil of the UMC Girls’ Secondary on behalf her colleagues thanked their beneficiary "for contributing to actualizing my dream of becoming an accountant in the future.” She promised to make good use of her scholarship.
(C) Politico 26/11/13
