Oserian Development Company will offer full junior-grade school scholarships to eight top candidates from two primary school within its farm . The eight , six boys and two girlfriend studied at the Oserian Primary shoal , a public mental hospital and the private flank , Hilltop Primary .
It was the first time in the history of the schools to bring out a top nominee nationwide , a feast that fuddle the firm ’s community into a hysteria .
The unspoilt operation comes in the wake of the launching , early this year , of a schooling feeding course of study to which the direction attribute the prima performance that placed Oserian number one in the Mayela zone . The top boy , Churchill Omondi scored 424 marking , claiming a place among the top 500 candidates nationally . The second boy mark 419 while the third girl scored 398 .
Oserian film director of governance Mary Kinyua with KCPE top candidates from Oserian schoolhouse , Churchill Omondi ( will ) , Samuel Kamondai ( second right ) and Teddy Andrea ( right )
Oserian director of governing Mary Kinyua pronounce the unspoilt operation , coming after pupils started bewilder a loving cup of uji for breakfast and lunch for loose is a strong indicator of the demand to introduce a countrywide school feeding program to keep child nourished so they could concentrate on studies .
Ms Kinyua ’s sentiment were recall by headmaster Mr Simon Mwangi who enunciate , “ The Oserian shoal feeding programme has reduced absenteeism and given child the much needed energy enabling concentration in schooltime resulting in the high marks ever . "
The school eating programme and the scholarships are managed through FairTrade that identify the needs as a mean to support pupils to pursue pedagogy and ease the burden on parent .
Joseph Njoroge , the representative of the Oserian - FairTrade Joint Body supply , " Unlike before when children pull up stakes after school hours , since the feeding started they stay on for prep because they are not hungry . “ We believe in bear upon communities by investing in training and results are speaking for themselves as see in the first yr carrying out since the feeding set off ” , he said .
bursary will also be offered to other pupil who scored 280 scrape and above .
Churchill Omondi , whose dreaming is to become a pilot program , has relieved his parents the gist of schoolhouse fees for the next four years and his mother Mariam Aoko , who works at the flower farm could n’t obliterate her gratitude for both the feeding programme and the encyclopaedism . “ I have n’t worry about breakfast and lunch , and now I do n’t have to interest about my Word ’s school fees , ” she said , give thanks the Oserian management for the financial support .
The Oserian scholarships also covers university education for the top three students of Oserian High school , who are accorded a prospect to run at the farm if they care after college . Four of the first university beneficiaries are already at various in high spirits institutions of learning in the country .
Ms Kinyua tote up Oserian will pursue ways of sustaining both program as its contribution to the Big 4 Agenda – education and food certificate . About 2,300 scholarly person are provide for .
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