Project ID: 91631

China grants the 2019/2020 "Chinese Ambassador Scholarship" to Liberian students

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Chinese Embassy [Government Agency]

Recipient

Liberia

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Scholarships/training in the donor country

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2020-10-28

Actual start

2020-10-28

Description

On October 28th, 2020, The Chinese Embassy in Liberia held an online ceremony to grant the "Chinese Ambassador Scholarship" to Liberian students. This scholarship benefitted more than 130 students from three Liberian universities: the University of Liberia, Cuttington University and Tubman University. The students were selected with the help of the Liberian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education. The purpose of the scholarship is to help Liberian students to realize their personal ideals and making contributions to Liberia's education. More than 30 people including Chinese ambassador Ren Yisheng, Deputy Minister of Education of Liberia, Latim, President of the University of Liberia, Nielsen, representatives of Cardington University and Tubman University, representatives of award-winning students, and media reporters attended online. The ceremony was streamed from Monrovia.

Additional details

Number of official sources

3

Number of total sources

5

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Liberia [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Liberia Ministry of Foreign Affairs [Government Agency]

Liberia Ministry of Education [Government Agency]