Info For You Lot Mwangaza Scholars Programme For Kenyan Medical Students

Mwangaza Scholars Program 

Course(s) offered: Medicine
Course Level: Bachelors
Provider: Indiana University
Country to Study in: Kenya

Scholarship Description
The Indiana University (IU) scholarship plan was late renamed Mwangaza Scholarship, Swahali for "light," reflecting its wide base of operations of back upwards in addition to its behave on on poverty-stricken medical students.

This scholarships plan assists impoverished Kenyan medical students who are the futurity wellness attention leaders of Kenya.

For every 100,000 Kenyans, in that place are entirely thirteen medical doctors. In contrast, United States has 275 physicians for the same population.

Eligibility
The scholarship is for impoverished Kenyan medical students

Eligible groups
Citizens of Kenya

Participating Institutions
Indiana University (via the Indiana Institute for Global Health, Inc.); AND
Moi University School of Medicine (Eldoret, Kenya)

Fields of study
Undergraduate score studies inwards the Medical Sciences

Number of awards
Currently in that place are 54 Mwangaza Scholars with over 350 Moi students.

Sponsorship duration
Students acquire into medical schoolhouse next high schoolhouse in addition to their medical pedagogy spans vi years. Students must stay inwards practiced academic standing to retain their scholarships.

Donors are encouraged to brand multi-year pledges to assure continuity of back upwards to the students.

Scholarship benefits
Each $750 annual scholarship covers tuition, fees, housing, in addition to required books/ medical instruments.

Method of Application
This is for impoverished Kenyan students.

If you lot are eligible, you lot volition convey to write to the sponsors to post you lot all application materials.

It is of import to watch the official website through the links below.

DEADLINES:
Applications are all the same ongoing. Please ascertain the deadline engagement from the sponsors

PLEASE NOTE:
To acquire to a greater extent than virtually the Mwangaza Scholarship Program or to brand an investment inwards the lives of Kenyan medical students, delight contact: Tal Bosin, Ph.D., bosin@indiana.edu | (812) 855-3035.

The Need:
  1. Increase the set out of multi-year scholarships. Cost is $750 per year. Of 350 Moi students, entirely fifty currently have scholarships. An additional fifty educatee are inwards desperate need of fiscal help.
  2. Increase the set out of endowed scholarships. Cost is $15,000 per scholarship. Currently in that place are only xviii endowed scholarships with the fifty that are awarded.
Moi University School of Medicine (Eldoret, Kenya) enrolled its start cast of students inwards 1990. Currently, the School admits lx students per year, selected from the brightest high schoolhouse graduates.

This twelvemonth 800,000 high schoolhouse seniors took the Republic of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) bear witness in addition to 10,200 were admitted to populace universities. Of these, the tiptop 160 students were admitted into the ii medical schools, Nairobi in addition to Moi Universities.

Application Deadline: Obtain from sponsor
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Kenyans)

More Scholarship Information in addition to Application

Related: List of Scholarships inwards Republic of Kenya for Students
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