{"id":43110,"date":"2021-03-18T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/imbuto-foundation-receives-us-30-000-for-100-scholarships-of-high-performing\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:22:56","slug":"imbuto-foundation-receives-us-30-000-for-100-scholarships-of-high-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/imbuto-foundation-receives-us-30-000-for-100-scholarships-of-high-performing\/","title":{"rendered":"Imbuto Foundation receives US$ 30,000  for 100 scholarships of high-performing students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Kenya (MKU) has made the donation through existing partnership with Imbuto Foundation.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, we received US$30,000 from Mount Kenya University Rwanda as part of a 5-year agreement to support 100 brilliant Secondary School students from vulnerable backgrounds, through the Edified Generation Scholarship. The University has pledged USD 150,000 towards this programme,\u201d Imbuto Foundation has revealed via Twitter handle.  <\/p>\n<p>Initiated in 2002 by Imbuto Foundation, the \u2018Edified Generation\u2019 scholarship programme financially supports bright students from economically vulnerable backgrounds in their pursuit of education.<\/p>\n<p>Sandrine Umutoni, the Director General of Imbuto Foundation has said that during this period of celebrating 20-year anniversary, they greatly commend the contribution of the university to fulfill its mission.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great contribution and support preparing the youth to efficiently serve the country in the future,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>The Vice Chancellor at Mount Kenya University Rwanda, Prof Edwin Odhuno has told IGIHE that they are glad for Imbuto Foundation\u2019s contribution to promote education.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cImbuto Foundation supports education, particularly girls with vulnerable backgrounds.  It induces pride to see graduates from our university becoming leaders.  The fact that our graduates are assigned to major duties, is a reflection of quality education promoted among young people,\u201d he said.   <\/p>\n<p>Prof Edwin explained that the university will train these 100 students after completion of studies and equip them with life skills in the areas of investment and entrepreneurship to complement their education.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38106 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_ima7861-40bee.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Kenya (MKU) has made the donation through existing partnership with Imbuto Foundation.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38105 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/prof_edwin_y2fa9-56238.jpg\" alt=\"The Vice Chancellor at Mount Kenya University Rwanda, Prof Edwin Odhuno has told IGIHE that they are glad for Imbuto Foundation\u2019s contribution to promote education. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Imbuto Fiyundation has received US$ 30,000 (approximately Rwf 29 million) from Mount Kenya University, Rwanda branch that will be utilized to provide scholarships for 100 students.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43110"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43110"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}