Launching the Rise & Shine Scholarship campaign 🎓
With high school now on the island, our students are asking the next question: what comes after?
There is no university on Nosy Komba. Students who want a degree must move to Diego Suarez on the main island, where rent, food, teachers and books are costs their families simply cannot cover. Without support, the talent Banana School has nurtured for years stops at the water's edge.
That's why we're launching the Rise & Shine Scholarship campaign, focused on helping our students reach university. A degree is one of the surest routes out of poverty: the World Bank finds that 46% of people with a secondary education live in poverty, compared with just 17% of those with higher education.
Rise & Shine scholars also give back while they study, helping run the médiathèque, supporting younger children and joining village projects.