How to apply for a HELB loan
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The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) is a government sponsored program that gives educational loans to vulnerable students who cannot afford higher education loans.
Students in universities, colleges and TVET institutions can apply for a HELB loan.
1. Undergraduate Loans (Direct Entry students)
These loans are for students joining public or private universities within the East African Community directly from high school either through the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) or as self-sponsored.
Amounts awarded range between Ksh.40,000 minimum and Ksh.60,000 maximum, based on the level of need. The loan attracts interest of 4% annually, and the students are required to repay their loans upon completion of their studies.
POLITICS
Suna East MP Junet Mohamed addresses the press on the collection signatures for the Building Bridges Initiative. The BBI steering committee presented the signatures to the IEBC at Anniversary Towers on December 10, 2020. [David Gichuru, Standard]
Everything has a price including peace. And, if the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) will break Kenya’s sequence of post-election violence and restore sanity then it is worth it. These are the sentiments of Government Spokesman Col rtd Cyrus Oguna, as he addressed the press in Nairobi on Tuesday morning.
Oguna urged Kenyans to read the BBI document and make an informed decision based on their own conscience and not rhetorics fed by political leaders.
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NAIROBI
Suna East MP Junet Mohamed and BBI National Initiative Co-chair Dennis Waweru during the Building Bridges Initiative steering committee preparations to present signatures to the IEBC at Anniversary Towers on December 10, 2020. [David Gichuru,Standard]
A conflation of political considerations, personal ambitions, strategic interests and pursuit of national good is playing in the background of the fervent push for constitutional changes packed in the handshake deal.
Through their handshake which triggered the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga have given a lifeline to sunken careers, revived fledgling ones and offered fresh prospects for more people to sit at the top.
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POLITICS
Electoral commission chief Wafula Chebukati (third left) receiving a box containing signatures from BBI Secretariat officials led by Suna East MP Junet Mohamed (second left) and BBI co-chair Dennis Waweru (right) at Anniversary Towers for verification on December 10, 2020. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]
The referendum Bill and signatures in its support were yesterday handed to the electoral commission boss who gave indications it won’t all be smooth sailing.
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman Wafula Chebukati gave subtle terms for faster clearance of the initiative which, incidentally, is running out of time.
Chebukati asked for money for verification of the signatures, recognition of the fact that the staff will be working during Covid-19 period and attached the start of the exercise to National Treasury’s responsiveness.