Growing up with a mother and sister to support, was always a hindrance for me to become a computer engineer.
Twenty one year old Ravnith Chand who hails from Ba, who was a recipient of the Voda Scholar Award yesterday said life was always a struggle for his family as his father was not around to put food on the table and thus the responsibility fell on him.
The first year University of the South Pacific student said from his primary school days, he would go out to the cane fields every morning and work just to make sure his younger sister would not miss out on her school and have a proper education.
A total of 13 boys and 2 girls from Ba, Labasa and Suva, yesterday received their 3 year scholarship of tuition and book cover from Vodafone.
The scholarships were handed out to needy children whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year.
Ba boy gets Voda scholarship
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