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2. The Kennedy Airlift - Wikipedia

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   The Kennedy Airlift was started in 1959 by a 28-year-old Kenyan, Tom Mboya, who sought support for promising Kenyan students to get college and university educations in the United States and Canada. It brought hundreds of students from East Africa from 1959 to 1963 and was supported by many North American educational institutions, foundations ...

3. Presidential Scholars Program - Wikipedia

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   2010 Presidential Scholars with President Barack Obama. 2005 Presidential Scholars with President George W. Bush. The United States Presidential Scholars Program is a program of the United States Department of Education. It is described as "one of the nation's highest honors for high school students" in the United States of America.

4. Aiducation - Wikipedia

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   Aiducation International (AI, commonly known as Aiducation), founded in 2007, is an international "for impact" non-profit organization (NPO) in the field of education. It sources scholarships from private persons in developed countries (the donors are called "AiduMakers") and awards these scholarships on a merit basis to needy students in developing countries.

5. Kenyan tech entrepreneur explains why he turned down a ... - AOL

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   A young Kenyan tech entrepreneur Mubarak Muyika heeded their advice even with a scholarship in hand to Harvard University. Kenyan tech entrepreneur explains why he turned down a scholarship to ...

6. Scholarships in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A scholarship is defined as a grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other distinction. [1] ". Scholarship" has a different meaning in the United States than it does in other countries, with the partial exception of Canada. Outside the U.S., scholarship is any type of monetary award to fund ...

7. Student financial aid in the United States - Wikipedia

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   e. Student financial aid in the United States is funding that is available exclusively to students attending a post-secondary educational institution in the United States. This funding is used to assist in covering the many costs incurred in the pursuit of post-secondary education. Financial aid is available from federal and state governments ...