G/20 OEI offers scholarship for soldier’s child

The G/Twenty (G/20) Overseas Education Institute & Global College – Cyprus is to offer a scholarship to a child of a soldier who sacrificed his life during the ethnic war.

The student who gained the highest marks at the Advanced Level rxamination is to receive this award in the near future.

The related documents and the cheque for the award were handed over to the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa by Chairman G/20 Dinesh Chandana Perera at the ‘Future Minds’ exhibition held recently.

The recipient will get the opportunity to travel to Cyprus and study at the Global College of Nicosia for a period of one year. The G.20 Overseas Education Institute will spend Rs. 600,000 for the scholarship, which will be of immense value to the recipient.

The Chief Guest at the awarding ceremony and the ‘Future Minds’ exhibition was Defence Secretary Rajapaksa. Others present on the occasion were Deputy Speaker Chandima Weerakkody, Colombo District MP Thilanga Sumathipala, Sri Lanka’s Councillor in Cyprus Premani Perera, Chairman of the G/20 Overseas Education Institute Dinesh Chandana Perera and a host of other distinguished invitees.

The G/20 Overseas Education Institute Chairman said that his institute hopes to continue with these scholarships in the future too and added that it was fully geared to serve the students who intend to study abroad by way of finding universities and attending to travel and visa matters.