Just letting you know that 'RAYS' (Rotary Apia Academic Youth Scholarship) project is now underway and the four recipients (picture in attached media article) who come from a disadvantaged background are soon to attend their first day at the National University of Samoa where they will begin to realise their dreams.
All four have very high academic potential and the impact of each achieving higher will be passed on to many in their families and villages. Thanks to Rotary - they will now be able to escape a future that had very little hope.
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Sustainability:
A condition of the scholarship is each student must receive continually high grades and also reapply for their scholarship each year - so think we now tick the box for sustainability. If they don't achieve the grades - then the scholarship will there for some other young person to apply for. NUS run the scholarships with strong representation from RC Apia.
These four young people have big dreams and have attached a word file with a bit more history on them all for your info.
Clubs at this stage are committed to continued support and are looking now at submitting this as a Future Vision Project and Pencarrow will be applying before end of July.
We are very appreciative of the support we received from the two other local clubs and advice from district officers.
It's times like this that you feel really chuffed about being a Rotarian.
