It was conceived in 2010 to identify and motivate intelligent, assiduous but vulnerable students in secondary schools in Bamenda and track their progress. The identification is done through the active structures of Nso’bati Bamenda in collaboration with the school authorities
concerned.
It started on 29/01/2011 during the memorial of Fr. Paul Verdzekov that Nso’bati Bamenda celebrated after mass with a mini–cultural jamboree at All Saints Parish Bayelle – Bamenda.
Eight vulnerable cases mostly orphans benefited from a financial package to meet up their specific needs with respect to the data collected. These needs ranged from school fees, school needs, and medical care.
When the Nso cultural week was re-baptized as Ngon – Nso Cultural Festival, it was resolved that this scholarship award project be a regular socio–educational motivation to the children of Bui in a brief ceremony in the Ntoh Nso palace plaza on the day Nso’bati Bamenda is
participating.
It is in this light that the financial package was stepped up to 50,000 FRS per candidate and 10 candidates benefited from the following nine (9) schools on Wednesday 26th December 2012.
The schools included; GBHS Kikaikom, GBHS Jakiri, GSS Banten, GBSS Kumbo – Palace; Cardinal Tumi Comprehensive College Jakiri, GBHS Kitiwum, GBHS Kumbo, GHS Mbiame, and GTHS Nkwen. This project continued in the subsequent Ngon – Nso Cultural Festivals that had become an aunnual event. The quest for the acquisition of land for Nso’bati Bamenda then occupied the central interest that suppressed the scholarship scheme that requires a re-visit from 2013 Ngon – Nso Cultural Festival. (See photos from archives)
