Imfundo Trust Scholarship Programme for the youth
Imfundo Trust Scholarship Programme for the youth
Due Date: 30 September 2024
As a dedicated shareholder of Old Mutual Investment Group, Imfundo Trust is on a mission to cultivate and empower black investment professionals, with a specific focus on uplifting black women from constrained backgrounds. Utilising the dividend income, Imfundo channels resources into funding students pursuing degrees crucial to the investment management sector. In the year 2023 alone, the Trust has sponsored a remarkable total of 27 students, with a significant emphasis on supporting 17 female scholars.
Eligibility
- Are you a grade 12 learner or first year student with a passion for numbers?
- Are you a hard worker with a logical, yet creative mind?
- Are you someone with integrity, tenacity and the resilience to push through the trying times?
Why should you join?
This scholarship programme finances deserving black students’ tertiary education. It aims to develop black investment professionals, with a bias towards black women. This full scholarship covers tuition, books, accommodation and meals, as well as providing spending money.
Scholarship Benefits
- Tuition and accommodation costs are covered in full
- You receive a book and spending allowance
- You have access to ICAS for psychosocial support
- You will be under a mentorship programme from 3rd year onwards.
Degrees funded
- Business, Commerce, Finance and Management Sciences/Studies
- Computer Science and related qualifications (e. g. Computational Thinking)
- Data Science
- Climate Studies (postgraduate)
- Engineering
Our Partner Universities:
- Stellenbosch University
- University of Cape Town
- University of the Witwatersrand
- University of Johannesburg
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
- University of Pretoria
Also Check: Auditor-General of South Africa Bursaries only for Chartered Accountancy studies
