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166 QUALIFY FOR A MADHVANI SCHOLARSHIP IN 2015/16

(Posted 17th August 2015)

Hotel management, food science and environmental course students were among the 166 selected this year from over 2.000 applicants seeking the support from Uganda’s richest scholarship foundation.

Some 147 graduate students are joined by 19 post graduate students and will benefit from 700 million Uganda Shillings the foundation set aside for the current year, up from 650 million Uganda Shillings last year. Over the past years has the foundation given in excess of four billion Uganda Shillings, making it the biggest private sector educational support scheme available in Uganda today.

Besides producing sugar at their Kakira factory is the Madhvani Group also engaged in manufacturing, the insurance sector and notably the hospitality industry with presently four lodges in Uganda and three in neighbouring Kenya.

Chobe and Paraa lodges in Murchisons Falls National Park are joined by Mweya Safari Lodge in Queen Elizabeth National Park and Silverback Lodge just outside Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, home of several hundred mountain gorillas. In Kenya does the company own and operate the Mara Leisure Camp, the Ark – one of the two tree hotels in the Aberdare National Park and the Aberdare Country Club, a little gem in the Kenyan highlands offering a range of sporting attractions from golf to horseback riding, tennis and more. In addition has the group also opened two hotels already in India and more are reportedly in the pipeline, covering key locations of the Hindu pilgrimage circuit.

It was arguably for the group’s involvement in the hospitality and tourism industry that added courses like hotel management, food sciences and environmental studies were added to the spectrum which initially was restricted to technical and science courses.