375 students get scholarship from Fair & Lovely Foundation

Recipients of scholarship for higher education given away by Fair & Lovely Foundation, a social initiative of Unilever Bangladesh Ltd, pose for photographs with the guests at a function in Dhaka yesterday.Photo: STAR

A total of 375 female students yesterday received scholarship for higher education from Fair & Lovely Foundation, a social initiative of Unilever Bangladesh Ltd.
Each under-graduate student will receive Tk 25,000 in four years under the scholarship programme of the foundation, which works for the enhancement of women's economic empowerment.
The foundation started the scholarship programme in 2005. Now, some 600 female students under three batches are receiving the scholarship.
Speaking at the function, Women and Children Affairs and Social Welfare Adviser Geeteara Safiya Choudhury welcomed the Unilever initiative for helping female students.
Naimul Islam Khan, editor of Amader Shomoy, a Bangla language daily, and Naushadul Karim Chowdhury, brand and development director of Unilever Bangladesh, were also present at the function.