Jubilee Holdings Group CEO, Dr Julius Kipng’etich (left) arms over a dummy cheque to Roselyne Naliaka Mumbua (centre) and her mom Jennifer Mumbua. Roselyne was one of many 2022 Jubilee Youngsters’s Fund beneficiaries. FILE PHOTO | POOL

Jubilee Insurance coverage has allotted Sh40 million to assist 168 college students to entry highschool training over the following 4 years.

By the insurer’s scholarship programme dubbed Jubilee Youngsters’s Fund, the help will cowl each the schooling charges and supplementary wants reminiscent of college uniforms.

This 12 months, the plan has onboarded 85 college students, with the primary cohort set to take a seat for his or her nationwide secondary examinations later within the 12 months.

“We imagine empowering a toddler with training will positively form their future and assist enterprise and financial continuity. An informed inhabitants additionally has a better revenue and diminished dependence on public help packages,” stated Jubilee Insurance coverage Group CEO Dr Julius Kipngetich.

The programme is a well timed intervention as many youngsters nonetheless wrestle to entry studying alternatives attributable to biting poverty.

A World Training Monitoring Report launched by Unesco final 12 months estimated that 1.8 million youngsters aged between six and 18, who’re imagined to be in class, have both dropped out or by no means been in class.

The report additional ranked sub-Saharan Africa because the world-leading area the place youngsters are most excluded from training.

The Jubilee Youngsters’s Fund additionally runs three further healthcare sponsorship initiatives, specifically Eye Challenge, Operation Ear Drop and Arms & Limbs.

“These alleviate well being hardships by supporting youngsters to entry eye care, ENT, and prosthetics for kids with damaged limbs,” stated the insurer.

The Fund has to date spent Sh838 million to assist youngsters entry prosthetic limbs and bear ENT surgical procedures.

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