Twenty-four college students hailing from Kingston School (KC) and Calabar Excessive in Jamaica are set to reap the advantages of $3.6 million in scholarships earmarked for the upcoming 2024/25 tutorial 12 months.
This beneficiant help stems from the David “Wagga” Hunt Basis, a U.S.-based charity established in 2009 to honor the reminiscence of the late soccer coach and sports activities administrator after whom it’s named. The inspiration, devoted to perpetuating Hunt’s legacy, mobilizes funds to assist deserving college students at KC, his alma mater, and Calabar Excessive, the place he as soon as coached soccer.
Recipients of those scholarships are required to exhibit tutorial excellence, lively engagement in extracurricular actions, and a demonstrated want for monetary help. In doing so, they carry ahead Hunt’s ethos of management and his fervor for sports activities.
Final tutorial 12 months, the scholarship sum was boosted by 50 p.c to US$1,000 (J$150,000) per pupil, complemented by a US$3,500 (J$500,000) grant bestowed upon every faculty for forthcoming tasks.
Basis to honor two Jamaican luminaries
The Basis is gearing up for its annual fundraising gala, scheduled for Saturday, February seventeenth, on the Atrium of the Nationwide Schooling Affiliation Constructing in Washington DC.
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The occasion, graced by the esteemed patronage of Jamaica’s Ambassador to america, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks, pays tribute to 2 luminaries within the spheres of science and sports activities: Dr. Henry Lowe and Lorne Donaldson.
Dr. Lowe, a distinguished cancer researcher, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, shall be lauded for his exceptional contributions to the sciences, science training, and his exemplary public service to the Jamaican diaspora and past.
In the meantime, Mr. Donaldson, a stalwart in sports activities, shall be celebrated for his distinctive efforts in fostering the event of women’ and girls’s soccer (soccer) in Jamaica and america.
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Christopher Hunt, Chairman of the Basis, reaffirmed the group’s steadfast dedication to its mission of offering scholarships to deserving college students at KC and Calabar.
“As we anticipate the gala and past, the David ‘Wagga’ Hunt Basis stays a beacon of hope, a facilitator of desires, and a testomony to our collective potential to form a brighter future for our youth,” he remarked. “It’s a celebration of progress, of lives enriched via training and help, and of our unwavering perception in each pupil’s potential to attain greatness.”
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