Twelve secondary level students have been awarded two-year academic scholarships totaling twenty-five thousand, two hundred United States dollars (US $25,200).
RESTORE Belize, through the United Nations Development Programmeโs โEnabling, Gender - Responsive Disaster Recovery, Climate and Environmental Resilience in the Caribbeanโ (EnGenDER) Project, was able to assist young deserving students whose family circumstances were compromised by the economic recession exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ten girls and two boys were provided with scholarship packages covering tuition, uniforms, books and tutoring expenses.
At the start of the pandemic, the EnGenDER project, funded by the Government of Canada and the UK Government, repurposed US$1.1M to support the alleviation of social and economic shocks associated to the current COVID-19 Pandemic and address the compelling needs of the most vulnerable segments of the population in nine Caribbean countries.ย This support โperfectly aligns with the projectโs overarching focus of addressing the inequalities and socio-economic vulnerabilities for women and girls and those most at riskโ (Denise Antonio, Resident Representative UNDP Belize).
The โRESTORE Belizeโ, โI AM BELIZEโ Scholarship Programme seeks to break cycles of generational poverty through the provision of opportunities for academic advancement.