NewsWhore
11-27-2008, 03:20 PM
President Leonel Fernandez has led an awards ceremony for 445 outstanding students from poor families who received scholarships funded by corporate donors and supported by several national universities. The scholarship program is supported by business leaders Manuel Estrella, Jose Luis Corripio, Juan Vicini, Juan Ramon Gomez and Ramon Brea, among others. The universities supporting the program include the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra, the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, the Technological University of Santiago, the Northeast Catholic University and the Technological Institute of the Eastern Cibao.
The most emotional moment in the ceremony came when four students with disabilities were awarded scholarships for their excellent academic work. Many in the crowd wept as they listened to testimonies from Saldano Bautista and Nelkys Nina Lima from the town of Llano in Elias Pina, Jose Agramonte from Cotui and Cristopher Antigua Nunez from Bonao. Fernandez announced that they would each receive a house from the National Housing Institute, and moved by their example he said that he would launch a project to locate students with disabilities in order to get them the assistance they need.
The scholarship program benefited 273 girls and 172 boys. More than three quarters of the students came from Santiago, Puerto Plata, La Vega, Monte Plata and San Juan.
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The most emotional moment in the ceremony came when four students with disabilities were awarded scholarships for their excellent academic work. Many in the crowd wept as they listened to testimonies from Saldano Bautista and Nelkys Nina Lima from the town of Llano in Elias Pina, Jose Agramonte from Cotui and Cristopher Antigua Nunez from Bonao. Fernandez announced that they would each receive a house from the National Housing Institute, and moved by their example he said that he would launch a project to locate students with disabilities in order to get them the assistance they need.
The scholarship program benefited 273 girls and 172 boys. More than three quarters of the students came from Santiago, Puerto Plata, La Vega, Monte Plata and San Juan.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)