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PIONEER EXSSA USA DREAMERS SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED
To educate girls is to reduce poverty.
When women are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.
ELIGIBILITY
While the underlying eligibility for this scholarship is extreme and prolonged unusual financial challenges, each year we may decide to focus on a specifically disenfranchised group. This year in addition to our primary criteria, our target group is “Internally Displaced” young girls who passed the common entrance in either 2020 or 2021.
In the 1980s, Saker Baptist College graciously opened its doors to young, and not so young girls, refugees from Namibia. The Namibian refugees eventually returned to their country and are now thriving adults. In fact, in 2019, class of 1984 which includes one of our Namibian Sakerette sisters, organized its 40th anniversary of meeting in Saker in Windhoek, Namibia where they were received by the President of Namibia.
We were inspired by the experience of Namibian students in Cameroon and are therefore thankful to God that Saker Baptist College is opening its doors again for even a tiny fraction of young girls internally displaced due to the ongoing crisis in our own country, Cameroon. For these children, the crisis exacerbated their already precarious financial and familial situations.
THE SELECTION PROCESS
The selection process was excruciatingly thorough. Applicants were effectively screened multiple times on the stated criteria by our Dreamers Scholarship Committee composed of Sakerettes in Cameroon and the USA. Finalists were then vetted in multiple ways including in-person and virtual interviews of applicants, their family members and other relevant persons. We also made strenuous efforts to strive for regional balance in awarding these scholarships.
The four young girls selected have been awarded full scholarships for six or seven years to Saker Baptist College,Limbe, Cameroon from form one or form two to upper sixth. This scholarship also ensures that these young girls are catered for holistically to ensure continued success in the classroom. To these young girls, attending a boarding secondary school was a dream, not to talk of attending the high ranking and prestigious all-girls Christian boarding school, Saker Baptist College. We hope that these Scholarships will make their dreams of a successful future also come true.
THE AWARDEES
The awardees who have already been validated by the Principal of Saker Baptist College, Mr. Ghawi Shomsi are:
If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
Berinyuy Tessy-Freda Ate-e
Common Entrance Results
List A
Present School
Government Bilingual Primary School(LAC) Group 4, Yaounde.
School Before Crisis
Augustine Catholic Nursery and Primary School, Bamkika-ai, Kumbo, Bui Division.
Tarkang Henrietta Ebob
Common Entrance Results
List A
Present School
Community Education Center via McDonald Nursery and Primary School, Mamfe.
School Before Crisis
Clark Bilingual Nursery and Primary School, Kumba, Meme Division.
Njimah Favour Sih
(Missed 2 years of school due to the war)Common Entrance Results
List A (2020) Entry accepted into form 2
Present School
Government Bilingual Grammar School, Mbanga
Common Entrance School
Government Bilingual Primary School Group 1 Mbanga. Littoral Region
School Before Crisis
Catholic School Baingo, Belo subdivision. Northwest Region.
Pauline Makane Luma
(Missed 2 years of school due to the war)Common Entrance Results
List A (2020- Entry accepted into form 2)
Present School
Lycee Molyko, Buea.
Common Entrance School
Government School great Soppo in 2020
School Before Crisis
Catholic school Bekora Barombi, Ekondo-Titi Subdivision, South West Region.
A WORD OF THANKS
