KOHIMA Educational Trust
Scholarships

Margaret Halnan presents a Nursing Scholarship award

Scholarship Awards 2008

Nursing students journey into Kohima to study at the Central Hospital where they learn essential nursing basics and take the knowledge back to their (often remote) villages where there is little to no medical care. Full knowledge of midwifery is particularly vital in the region.

Such is the dedication of the students that one girl travelled three days to attend the ceremony, one arrived on foot and two came by bus. Another pupil was prevented from making it to the ceremony as a mud slide had closed the road and the bus was unable to reach Kohima. Read more with pictures.

Scholarship Awards 2007

Sixteen KET scholarships were awarded in Kohima on 27 July 2007 at a ceremony organized by Atuo Mezhur, Treasurer of the Kohima Educational Society.

Six of the awards were continuation grants to scholars who had received their scholarships for the year 2006/7. Six new scholarships were awarded for the current year to students selected from short lists from different districts and tribes of Nagaland. The winners were all from homes where education is hampered by financial shortage. Two of the candidates are orphans. The remaining four won Halnan medical scholarships.

One of the winners, Ms Avinuo, is the beneficiary of a scholarship awarded by Mrs Mori Hancock in honour of her father, Charles Wheeler (a stretcher bearer with the Royal West Kents).

Donors are reminded that Trust scholarships can be awarded in memory of family members who served at Kohima.