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Sponsors along with students during the Kohima Educational Trust Scholarship Award 2019 ceremony at The Heritage on April 6.[/caption]
Our Correspondent
Kohima, April 6 (EMN): Kohima Educational Trust (KET) gave away the scholarship awards 2019 to the 360 students from various districts in Nagaland. The award ceremony was held at the Heritage, in Kohima on Saturday.
KET Chief Executive Officer, Sylvia May, in her address, said the main objective was to help young Nagas with their education adding it aimed at assisting them in ‘some way with school fees, books or uniforms or entrance fees or any other cost associating with an education.’
Speaking about the KET, she said the programme was set up ‘because my father, Gordon Graham, one of the founding members of KET, was a huge believer in the importance of education.’ ‘He worked his whole life as an educational publisher and absolutely believed that we should all be learners throughout our lives so that we are equipped to put this knowledge back into society,’ she said.
May hoped that Nagaland would develop more strongly with the talent and commitment.
Tomugha Awomi, KET scholar 2015, thanked the sponsors for their support and help. Awomi, who recently appeared his Class XII Science examination, said that such opportunity had encouraged and motivated him to put better efforts towards shaping his future.
He went on to express that receiving the scholarship stood out as a great achievement for him as it enabled him to stand on his own feet. It ‘became a big stepping stone that brought me up to what I am today,’ Awomi claimed.
To his friends, he said: “It’s not because of something that you and I have done but something that our forefathers did long before even you and I were born. They sowed the seed by their actions and we are enjoying the fruits of their toil.”
‘We must do our best for the future generations, just as we received this help,’ he added.
Two veterans of the Battle of Kohima, Saishe Sema and Richard Day also spoke briefly at the event. Sema, who is now 95 year old, said it takes a lot of courage to become a soldier.
The awards were distributed to the students from Class VII to Class XII in various categories. Some of the students also met and interacted with their sponsors at the event.
