MENEMO Scholarship Fund
The Scholarship
The MENEMO Scholarship Fund offers need-based scholarships to college, high school and nursing school students in low resource countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.
Applicants must be currently enrolled students perusing an educational program in a health-related profession. Applicants must demonstrate a financial need and be in good academic standing.
The Fund looks for applicants that have:
- A financial need
- Are active in their school and community
- Have strong educational and career goals
- Are self-motivated.
Selection Process
The MENEMO scholarship Fund has an outstanding group of community volunteers who sit on the Selection Committee which reviews all applications. The Scholarship Selection Committee is comprised of professionals; including educators, businessmen and women, and individuals who are considered experts in certain areas. Most committee members have served many years and have a great deal of experience in our process.
The online application becomes available on our website on January 1st each year. The deadline for completion is February 1st of that same year. Once completed, the applications are processed and delivered to the Scholarship Selection Committee.
Applications are reviewed and ranked in the appropriate areas. The rankings are then submitted to our office, where they are entered into a program that compiles them insuring that every applicant is being equally assessed. Based on the rank from that scoring, the candidate is either declined or invited to interview.
Students who are selected to interview are contacted via email, phone and regular mail to schedule an interview. For the interview, all candidates are graded according to the results of their interview. During this process, you will be required to discuss your essay describe how you see yourself impacting social change in your community and or globally.
Once all information is obtained, we then take our selection committee grades and merge them with the established financial need to assign scholarships that are based on need and who best meets the established criteria.
Mentorship Program
Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less (the protégé).
Advantages of Mentorship: The greatest benefits to be gained from any mentoring relationship come from how the mentee uses what their mentor can provide them. Here are 10 specific benefits of working with good mentors:
- Knowledge and contacts: An often unique benefit that can only be gained from a good mentor is a combination of detailed industry knowledge and personal introductions to the mentor’s contacts, which have often taken the mentor many years to establish, and which might not otherwise be readily available to you.
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Words of Wisdom
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.”
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest"
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."