East and Central Africa’s Leading and largest investment company ‘Centum’, has over the years supported needy and bright students in different levels of education by offering them educational scholarships, which has led to many students realizing their career dreams.
In 2016, through its Vipingo Development subsidiary, Centum launched a scholarship programme in Kilifi County where it has been awarding 50 scholarships annually to students joining high school who score more than 300 marks in KCPE. In addition, it (Centum Investment Company) set up a vocational training centre in the area where the company gave scholarships to residents to acquire useful technical skills for their own economic empowerment.
As part of its corporate social responsibility agenda, Vipingo Development set aside a budget to upgrade education facilities in the region annually. Two primary schools, Timboni Primary School and Makonde Primary School, have already benefited from this fund.
“Today is another joyous opportunity, one of our proudest moments. We are awarding scholarships to 50 bright and needy beneficiaries who would have missed a chance to join high school,” said Kenneth Mbae, the then Managing director of Vipingo development who is now the managing director of Centum real estate .
“We sponsor them because we want to transform the communities where we do business and one of the biggest way for transformation is through education that’s why we are pushing for this scholarship programme and we’ve seen some benefits,” he added.
Centum’s mission is to create real, tangible wealth by providing the channel through which investors access and build extraordinary enterprises in Africa.
