APP’s Scholarship Programme Has Eight New Recipients
21 November 2011
The African Prisons Project (APP) has announced the eight new recipients of its Scholarship Programme who will now commence studying, fully funded, for either the Diploma in The Common Law or Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree, via correspondence with the University of London.
Three of the recipients are prison staff; the remaining five are prison inmates – including Natoolo Susan Flavia, the only woman among the group – from, among others, Upper Prison, Luzira, both male and female prisons, and Upper Prison Condemned Section, in Kampala.
Their achievements, made all the more remarkable under the circumstances, in being awarded scholarships have come to fruition through intensive study, much hard work, determination and self-discipline, studying in less than conventional surroundings, but with much support – both practical and moral – from APP, plus of course the necessary funding to carry them through their courses.
APP has opted to invest some of the £50,000 award money it was recently granted, through the charity receiving The Clifford Chance Access to Justice Award 2011, to finance these law students.
This announcement, coming as it does just ahead of Prisons Week (20-26 November), appears all the more special and appropriate, showing that, with the right directives, wonderful things can be achieved in prisons.
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