Skip to content
AidData logo

Overview

Chinese Embassy in Lesotho awards up to M53,500 to 35 Basotho students for story writing competition

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$4,064
Commitment Year•2018Country of Activity•LesothoDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•LesothoSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Aug 25, 2018
Start (actual)
Aug 25, 2018
End (actual)
Aug 25, 2018

Geospatial footprint

Map overview

Visualizes the AidData-provided feature geometry for this project.

Loading map…

The awards ceremony celebrating the secondary schools students learning Chinese was held at the Avani hotel in Maseru, Lesotho. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/295076590

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Chinese Embassy

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Lesotho

Loan description

Chinese Embassy in Lesotho awards up to M53,500 to 35 Basotho students for story writing competition

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On August 28, 2018, the story writing competition "My China Stories 2018" at Avani Lesotho was held at the same time as the Chinese Bridge-Chinese Proficiency Competition for secondary school students. The competition is a story-writing competition held to encourage Chinese-speaking Basotho students. 35 students won prizes within the competition, and individual prize money awarded by the Chinese Embassy ranged from M1000 to M2500 each, summing up to M53,500.