{{Failure and or prolonged delay in issuing upkeep funds is forcing several government sponsored students quiting school after failing to cope with resultant challenges including failure to secure food, shelter and other requirements.}}<\/p>\n
IGIHE.com carried out a random and quick survey at various schools tracing complaints from students about what they describe as horrible conditions that force some of them dropping out school.<\/p>\n
Students also told IGIHE.com that among their challenges include delayed upkeep funds.<\/p>\n
At the school of Finance and banking few of the students were willing to talk about their living conditions, some asked to remain anonymous citing stringent repercussions.<\/p>\n
A beneficiary of Student Financing Agency for Rwanda (SFAR) at the school of Finance and banking Karangwa (not his real name) in his third year said that he was financially supported for only two years. He noted that while in his second year things had already started to deteriorate. <\/p>\n
SFAR had allegedly encountered problems and students were made to wait for the money. This made living conditions complicated for there was no money to help them survive. <\/p>\n
\u201cNow am in my third year and it is worse than ever, the delays are longer and some of my friends have been told that they haven\u2019t been listed yet we were all listed last year\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cwhat has happened to our money, and what will happen to us if they refuse to acknowledge our names, this is not right and something should be done about it\u201d<\/p>\n
Peter Gishumba a student at Kigali Institute of Education told IGIHE.com that government gives students\u2019 money to Ecobank. However, once the money is in the hands of the bank, students don\u2019t see the money for weeks.<\/p>\n
He adds, \u201cThe claims made by the bank and SFAR are that they are encountering delays in receiving the money yet the money is supposed to be in the bank, so where is it and doesn\u2019t the government think there is something wrong with this system?\u201d<\/p>\n
IGIHE.com also travelled to Gitarama and noticed students roaming the streets as if they have nothing to do. At lunch hours restaurants are shunned and only a about three or five students can be seen sharing a meal.<\/p>\n
Felix Rwigema, a 2nd year student noted that living conditions have worsened since last year, \u201clast year we were told to wait for SFAR that had been dealing with some problems, we are still waiting and while we do that we starve in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another student shared his frustration saying, \u201cmany times we are sharing rooms with our classmates whom have homes here, because we don\u2019t have money to rent on our own\u201d, <\/p>\n
Sylvia Umutesi a journalism student said \u201chaving to choose between lunch and dinner is how we survive. Is this why we must suffer in the name of receiving education from a government that has offered to help us, where is the help we need now?\u201d<\/p>\n
Incquired about students that have quit school because of these problems, she narrated of a case of a student Patrick Ndasabimana who quit school last year while in his second year and turned to Motorcucle taxi.<\/p>\n
Ndasabimana told his friends that he would not survive another year in those conditions and would rather find a job that will at least give him shelter and food. Patrick can be found sitting on his bike near the taxi park, waiting for clients, and in the evenings sitting in pubs with his former classmates.<\/p>\n
Thus students are requesting government to find a better way of handling their scholarship funds. By press time SFAR officials were not available for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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