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Maria Chiguvari
Youth Interactive Correspondent
OVER 1 200 students have benefited from Delta Corporation annual bursary programme, which aims to provide vulnerable students with access to education.
Delta has been involved in assisting students as a means of enhancing the capacity and capability of less privileged students for over 20 years.
The beneficiaries are Advanced Level students and those going into universities. To date, Delta has invested about US$2 million in the programme.
Delta Corporation general manager Corporate Affairs, Patricia Murambinda, said that the programme is meant to assist students who would have done well in their O Level examinations.
“Delta Corporation aspires for a better world by contributing to making a difference in the communities that we operate in. We believe in a brighter, better, thriving and growing society and today something new has come to fulfil this aspiration in the bursary scheme community and we are proud of it.
“To the students, please take this investment as a pillar of inspiration.”
She added: “The value of the bursary in this difficult environment should challenge you to work hard to improve yourselves academically so that in turn you may be able to further develop the communities where you come from.
“We have a total of 200 students benefiting from the programme from A-Level up to university this year and these students have been selected with the help of the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.
“Our bursary scheme programme is also complemented by our Delta Technical Institute (DTI) that develops artisans for the group from A Level students.”
The DTI has seen over 1 500 artisans graduate over the years.
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