One hundred Burundi female students will be benefited with scholarships financed through a agreement between the City Council of Gijón and one non Governmental Organization that collaborates with that African country.
The SOS Burundi association and the City Council will sign the agreement for the program called ‘101 dreams for girls from the heart of Africa’, informs SOS Burundi.
The project includes one hundred school scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year, he uniform mandatory and necessary clothes for the development of programmed activities and the rest of the educational material. With this initiative SOS Burundi manages to grant a scholarship to almost 33% of all the school’s students, since for the next school year 320 students are enrolled. SOS Burundi will pay further the inscription at the University of Gitega to a student that the nursery career next month of January. Her scholarship also includes the necessary material, accommodation and subsistence and the cost of the two months of compulsory internships contemplated by the academic institution.
He objective that are marked from SOS Burundi is that this first edition of the school and university scholarships has continuity in future courses thus reinforcing its active commitment to gender equality through these and other initiatives. The project includes financing the asphalt paving of the Lycée Sainte Croix de Ntita outdoor sports court.
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