It’s not every day that First Lady Margaret Kenyatta finds time to grace graduation ceremonies in learning institutions.
Her diary is routinely booked with official commitments related to health issues especially those focused on mothers and children and HIV/Aids.
But when 47 students from a class of 68 diploma graduands secure international scholarships in prestigious and globally acclaimed universities in America, Europe, Canada, Australia and several Middle East nations, many stakeholders with a soft heart for children take a time to appreciate the heroic achievement.
It is this gallant achievement that took the First Lady to Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa today to preside over the 10th graduation ceremony where two of the Diplomates, both Girls, Sumera Yego and Magdalena Chizi were also the first Kenyans to achieve the gold-level President’s Award-Kenya (PA-K, 2015) via the online documentation platform introduced in the country last year.
The 47 uniquely talented students have accumulatively secured scholarships worth US dollars 5.3 million in various internationally reputable universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, Emory, New York, Abu Dhabi, California Berkley, British Columbia McGill , and Toronto among others.
Aga Khan Academy, incorporating both Primary and Secondary schools, follows the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum and its graduates receive Diplomas to allow them direct entry into various universities to pursue a lucrative career related programs including rocket science and space exploration.
Source: May. 21, 2016 – The Star, Kenya
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