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Scotiabank Students
posted (June 27, 2018)

Scotia Bank's Belize City branch held its annual ceremony today to award primary school students with tuition grants. The program, which has been running for about 15 years, has sent just over 1000 students to school.  We spoke to Scotia Bank's Senior Manager of Business Support, Hernan Riverol, as well as Chief Education Officer Carol Babb, about the event...

Hernan Riverol - Senior Manager, Business Support
"Today was a special day for 87 or so children that will be continuing their primary school education by us providing them with a grant that will help them meet their school fees. We've been doing this for 15 or so years. We started back in the early 2000s and this year makes it 1000 grants that we have granted over those years. So it's a culmination of that commitment that we made some years ago and today is 1000 that do."

Carol Babb - Chief Education Officer
"Education is the greatest investment. A country that invests in its young people will get the greatest dividends. So we're extremely thankful to Scotia Bank for paying it forward. They have taken on their social responsibility very seriously. And we at the Ministry of Education are extremely thankful because our aim is to ensure that every child gets a good quality education. As you know earlier this year we launched literacy as a national priority, so we're encouraging children to stay in school and we're providing additional support. And Scotia Bank has in the past also donated a lot of story books, and those books are important for children to practice so they can become good writers and read well at their grade level too."

100 more students from throughout the country received grants as well. 




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