The Equity Group Foundation (EGF) has released the 2024 Wings to Fly scholarships for 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidates.
The scholarship program, which sponsors students to Secondary schools, targets children from financially constrained backgrounds or orphans who have excelled in the recently announced 2023 KCPE.
The scholarship will be available in every sub-county across all 47 countries. To apply, candidates have been urged to visit the nearest Equity Bank branch or submit application via the Wings to Fly online platform https://egfdmis.equitybank.co.ke/register_w2f
EGF demands that candidates fill in all the details in the 2024 application form for consideration, failure to which the applicant will be rendered illegible for the scholarship.
The application forms and selection process are free of charge and must be returned or submitted to their nearest Equity Bank branch or completed on the online platform by December 11th,2023.
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Key to note is that to qualify for the Wings to Fly Scholarship, candidates must be academically promising, having scored at least 350 marks in KCPE exams, and must meet at least one of the criteria below:
- Children who have lost one or both parents and have no relative/guardian/sponsor to provide for their secondary education
- Children who are and /or whose parents are physically, visually, or hearing impaired and are unable to educate their children and have no relative/guardian/sponsor to provide for their secondary education
- Children who are and/or whose parents are living with HIV/AIDS or other chronic debilitating illnesses and are unable to educate their children and have no relative/guardian/sponsor to provide for their secondary education.
- Children who come from vulnerable and marginalised groups or indigenous communities or have suffered from cultural practices e.g early marriage, female genital mutilation or negative influences including radicalization, child labour among others.
- Children from families affected by natural disasters such as flooding, drought and famine or civil conflict and are unable to educate their children and have no relative or guardian or sponsor to provide for their secondary education.
- Children who have suffered neglect and/or abandonment and have no relative/guardian/sponsor to provide for their secondary education.
- Children with parents living under extreme poverty and have no relative/guardian/sponsor to provide for their secondary education.
Only shortlisted applicants will be invited for interviews, which will be conducted by the Equity Group Foundation Community Scholarship Selection Board.
”If a family is found to have misrepresented their circumstances, the scholarship will be terminated, and they will be required to refund fees paid,’’ EGF warned.