SEIP SCHOLARS GET THEIR PACKAGE(9-7-2015)

A group picture of students who got the scholarship under World Bank Programme dubbed SEIP had their scholarship money today. Guardians/Parents of beneficiary students came to the school and signed some documents and the funds were disbursed to them. SEIP aims to offer support to needy students with the aim of increasing enrolment, improving retention and completion rates as well as increasing academic performance. This year Two Thousand Hundred (2,300) Senior High School students across the country will be awarded scholarships under the Secondary Education Improvement Project (SEIP) for the 2014/2015 academic year at various SHS across the country. Each student beneficiary will be entitled to an amount of approximately two thousand Ghana Cedis (2,000) per annum over a three-year period within which students are expected to have completed their secondary education. The scholarships will pay for relevant approved fees, levies, transport to school, uniforms and physical education kits, school shoes and bags, and other relevant stationary items, among others. Students that qualify to receive the scholarships under SEIP are orphans without support, a student who caters for herself or himself, a disabled student without support, a student living with HIV/AIDS and a student in a household with an income below the minimum wage. The others are a student from a Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) beneficiary household, a student from a single parent family with low income, a student whose parents/guardians are all unemployed and a student whose parents/guardians are living with disability or serious illness. The rest are a student from a large household that is unable to afford to send all children to school, a teenage mother without support and willing to go back to school and a student with sickle cell disease. The selection process is managed by a team including the District Directors of Education, Heads of beneficiary schools, District Girl’s Education Officers, Assembly Members and the members of the District Education Oversight Committees. Below are some pictures of students together with their guardians/parents and Headmaster.