Equity Bank group CEO James Mwangi.[Photo/the-star.co.ke]Two Kenyan students who pass their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams will from next year be awarded full scholarships to study at Harvard University, in the US.
The program will be under Equity Group’s Wings to Fly scholarship programme.
Equity Group CEO James Mwangi disclosed that Harvard University had accepted the proposal in honour of late Kenyan scholar Prof Calestous Juma,.
Juma was a lecturer at the university until his death last week.
He disclosed the details on Friday during a breakfast meeting held at the bank’s headquarters in Upper Hill to celebrate nine beneficiaries of the bank’s Wings to Fly scholarship programme who scored straight As in the 2017 KCSE results.
Nine Wings to Fly beneficiaries scored straight As while 107 scored A minus in the in the 2017 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination.
The nine were among 1,309 Wings to Fly scholars who qualified for university entry grade of C+ and above, representing 68.9 per cent of the 1,899 who sat the exam compared to the national qualifying rate of 11.5 per cent.
The Wings to Fly scholars were treated to a breakfast event hosted by Mwangi, who is also Equity Group Foundation’s Executive Chairman.
“You are distinguished because you have demonstrated your commitment, strength, and determination to move forward. As you join the Equity Bank Paid Internship Programme, we look forward to growing and enhancing this relationship for you to become even better members of the society,” Mwangi told the scholars.