Ninety Belizean students were awarded scholarships on Friday, August 8, by the Social Security Board of Belize (SSB). Of the 90 scholarship recipients, thirty-two are high school students, fifty-two are at the sixth form level, and six are vocational technical students. The scholarship distribution is done annually by the SSB to enable deserving students to continue their education up to the sixth form level.
“This is a significant event,” said Vanessa Vellos, Communications and Public Relations Manager for SSB. “You have a lot of students out there who study and do well in school, but they have a problem; they don’t have the finances to continue their education. So, what the Social Security Board is doing is providing that opportunity, that transition that you need from primary school to high school, and also from high school to the Associate degree level, the sixth form level,” she explained.
