Bus company driven to give university scholarships
Galen University opened its doors in 2003 with fourteen students and since then, its student body has grown to three hundred and ten students. Prospective as well as current students of the tertiary level institution at mile sixty-two on the Western Highway now have opportunities for scholarships. National Transport has decided to award ten scholarships, two per year for the next five years to deserving Belizeans. This morning David Novelo signed an agreement on the behalf of National Transport for the scholarship program with Galen.
David Novelo, Rep. National Transport
“Our company National Transport has been, fort he past three years, working with Galen and assisting in providing the driver as well as upkeep of the equipment, servicing and maintenance. So we sat early this year and we said in terms of notifying the dollar value of the assistance that National had given to Galen and we decided that if we come with a hybrid in terms of a joint venture we would be able to provide and give back something to the community and what better than providing education for needy Belizean students. That’s really what brought us together. I want to say that it was creative thinking. My staff worked wholeheartedly on this project and together with the Galen people and this is how here today we are able to provide these scholarships for ten Belizeans for the next five years.”
Marion Cayetano, V.P. Galen University
“The target audience are undergraduate students, they could attend one of several programmes; archaeology, anthropology, economics, finance, marketing, tourism and hospitality management and environmental science are the fields for which this scholarship is tenable and it’s students who have already completed junior college so we di look at the last two years of university undergraduate programs.”
If you would like to apply for the Galen Scholarships the application process starts today and ends on July twenty-fourth. The scholarships are available only to persons born in Belize.
