DAVOS, Switzerland [Brown University] — From the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons and businessman Idan Ofer have announced creation of the Advancing Africa Scholarship Fund. Ofer’s gift, totaling $5,750,000, ensures the immediate, full implementation of those scholarships. The Advancing Africa Scholarship Fund is designed to enhance the ability of students from sub-Saharan African nations to study at Brown University and return to their country to help address some of the continent’s critical needs in all sectors.
“This truly generous gift allows us to offer the opportunity for scholarships to an underserved continent,” said Simmons said. “We are making this announcement from the World Economic Forum to underscore the global nature of the gift. All nations must be given the chance to participate in the world’s economy. As educators, we have the responsibility to reach out to developing nations to provide the necessary tools to a wider cross-section of students.”
The Advancing Africa Scholarship Fund provides that:
recipients shall be known as Advancing Africa Scholars;
recipients will be asked to sign a pledge to return to full-time residency in Africa for a period of at least two years upon graduation from Brown or upon completion of a graduate degree;
during their time at Brown, recipients shall be entitled to two return trips paid through the Fund;
upon their return to Africa, recipients will be given an appropriate monthly stipend for two years to ensure a higher standard of living and to ease their transition. If the resident shall cease to be a full-time resident of Africa within the two year period, this stipend will terminate.
Ofer is chairman of the board of Israel Corporation, Israel's leading holding company, chairman of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd, and a member of the board in various distinguished companies active in the fields of chemicals, shipping, energy (including green energy projects), semiconductors and academic education.
Ofer is also a Brown parent. “Sub-Saharan African nations face poverty, illiteracy, illness and other significant obstacles to economic and social development,” he said. “Enabling students to be educated at one of the best universities in the world will give them the tools to help their nation.” The 2008 World Economic Forum is the eighth in which Ofer has taken part.
The Advancing Africa Scholarship Fund will enable Brown to strengthen educational ties to African countries. Currently 36 students from African nations attend Brown University, including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Reunion, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Seventeen are undergraduate, 18 are graduate students, and one attends the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
The announcement comes at a time when President Simmons has made internationalization a strategic priority for the University. Under her leadership Brown has taken steps to ensure that students are well prepared for the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly interconnected world. This includes encouraging scholarship by international students as well and strengthening ties and research with educational institutions around the globe.
Simmons will serve on a number of high-level panels at the World Economic Forum, including The Global University Presidents Forum. This panel will address the dissemination of university content for public benefit, sustainable campuses, and the aim of universities to reach into and intellectually enrich developing countries. Fellow panelists include university presidents from Harvard, MIT, Oxford, HEC Paris, IIT Madras, the National University of Singapore, and University of Cape Town.
Source: By Brown University
Posted January 25th, 2008 by seher
ALPHA JALLOW
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
P.O.BOX 2409 SERENADE
THE GAMBIA WES AFRICA
Application For Admission
Dear, Sir/Madam
I wish apply for sponsorship in your Association . I am healthy young Gambia of 18 years old.
I am currently I am waiting to sit to junior secondary certificate examination .My father used to pay my School dues,But is now getting old.That why ,I want you to help come next year .I do well in School which can be proven to you if you required .On that note.I patiently await on your considerable respond.Thank you but hope to hear from you soon
I hold a Diploma In Business Studies from the Institute of Professional Studies (I.P.S) legon in Ghana.I will love to continue with my education but have no funds and will be happy if i am give the opportunity to study under gradute course in Brown University. Please do send me the feedback
i am a form six leaver(A-level leaver) waiting for the results in TANZANIA.i did physics , biology and chemistry in A-Level but i also did commerce and book-keeping in ordinary level before tuning to science subjects.my dream is either to hold a degree in bussiness administration or becoming adoctor but due to financial problems there is a great possibility of holding none.may you help me..
First I'd like to thank you for giving the chance for African people to increase their knowledge and to gain more experience by continuing their studying abroad..
I'd like to know if the scholarship includes medicine, since I am a medical grauduate from Libya and was one of the top upon my colleages, and i would be grateful if you could provide me with more informtion regarding the scholarship.
Thank you
i am a form six leaver(A-level leaver 2007) I have got my results which are good. Am a Ugandan by birth .i did History, Economics. Divinity and Fine Art in A-Level I have a great ambition to business administration or International Business at Degree level or but due to my family background my only existing parent who is my Mother and once a Primary teacher cant afford University fees.Please help me succeed in order to compete favorably in the advancing world
I'm a Nigerian and graduate of Microbiology.I wish to further in Medicine in a University in the U.S because i've got their application form already and will want to know if you can provide financial aid for me.pls reply via email
I am a 19 year old Kenyan school leaver intrested in studying IT in eitheer Japan or the States. However, i do not hail from a well to do family. I woul like to be enlightened on the available opportunities to study in these countries at good Universities on a scholarship.
am from nigeria. i want to study the master degree programe. how can i get the scholarship fund you give to student from developing country
I am a citizen of Ethiopia, currently working as a graduate assistant at Jimma University. I have heard about the scholarship offered for advancing Africa. However, I could not get enough information on how and where to apply for the scholarship. Would you please provide all the necessary information to apply for the scholarship. I would like to thank you in advance for your cooperation.
i an a graduate of mechanical engineering from nigeria,i want to known how to apply for this scholarship to enable study for my msc in drilling and well engineering,pls give me list of school offering this course.
Am from Ethiopia. But currently a refugee in uganda. I stopped my education in the third year at Addis Ababa University and went on exile live to uganda. How could you help me study law at your University? Please let me hear soos possible.
Thanks!
Berhanu
I am a Somalian student 3d year in Business studies at the Perston University in Islamabad. However, I could not get enough information how to apply for the scholership. I'd be greatful if you provide all necessary information regarding the scholership. I'd like to thank you for giving the apportunity for african students.
Thank you.
Iam a graduate of the University here in Tanzania.My concern is scholarship for further studies preferably in my own country Tanzania because even education expenses is lower than abroad.
please I need your support for my future.
Hilary
Am a lady from kenya and interested in doing masters in microbiology i have just graduated from moi university with bsc microbiology and obtained a second class honours upper and am very much interested in doing masters course please i will appreciate if you consider me for scholarship offer
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I am 18years of age and would love to pursue Aviation or any associated course in aviation but in my country Ghana there is no institution that give out degree in aviation . For this reason i will be very please if you could kindly help me gain admission in your university or in a japanese University. Thank you.
I am a graduate of Kumasi Polytechnic and have a higher national diploma in fashion design, i will like to persue a degree in fashion design abroad to learn the fashion of some cultures since i don't have the opportunity here in Ghana. Can you please help me to gain admission?
First of all,I would like to give a lot of thanks for considering the problems of Sub Saharan people.I am a citizen of Tanzania located in East Africa and at the same time a graduate of bachelor of education in science and pursued mathematics as my teaching subject.I am currently tutoring educational psychology at teachers college in Tanzania,my great request is to beg your organization to assist me to pursue master studies either in Mathematics or educational management at any university either in my own country or abroad however my local universities have low expenses than abroad. let me also inform you that up to this moment I failed to apply to any university because of financial constraints,and I pursued my undergraduates studies under government sponsorship and salary I am receiving cannot make me to meet master studies tuition fees and this is due to fact that teachers in developing countries are given salary that can be used for consumption and there is no saving at all.I therefore request you to assist me by any means so that if God will one day I can be a PhD Holder so that I can much help my state to fight against poverty,illiteracy and illness.I wish you all the best in considering my request
Iam a fresh graduate of bachelor of science with education from makerere univesty the largest and oldest university in East Africa.I happen to have majored in physics and minored in maths.I have the ambition to study a masters in phyiscs from outside Africa.my cgpa is 3.52.Having sighted scholarships at Brown University i would love to apply.Thanks Brown University President Prof. Ruth J. Simmons and businessman Sir Idan Ofer.
ugandan science teacher
Hi,I am an undergraduat from Nigeria who which to further my education in BROWN.How do i go about it?please supply me with informations.Thanks
Please,do you provide scholarships for medicine.
Thanks a lot for the person behind this noble idear .No doubt this has already help and will contunuie to uplift developing countries.I was requesting if you could sponsor doctors.This Iam suggesting because i lost some people that I Know in simple diseases that I think if well trained health personnel were arround their lives could be saved easily.Iam high school leaver from KENYA wishing to become a pioneering doctor of my community one day .Although I have passed well in the Kenya Certificate OF Secondary Exam{K.C.S.E} I could not achieve my childhood dream of becoming a doctor due to financial constaint.I WILL be greatiful if you assist me even if i may pursuie in my home country or in your university.