Arua businessman to sponsor stranded PLE star for O-Level

Delighted. Northern Uganda PLE star Deogloria Virtue Ejang addresses a press conference in Kampala on Friday. PHOTO BY SHABIBAH NAKIRIGYA

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  • KK Travellers is a trading name of the transportation arm of Mr Taban’s string of investments, including real estate and hospitality business. He hails from West Nile and his KK Traveller buses ply the northern routes.

Kampala. KK Traveller, the proprietors of KK Coaches Limited, have offered full scholarship to Ms Deogloria Virtue Ejang, a former pupil of St Kizito Kindergarten and Primary School in Lira District, whose expectations of pursuing secondary education had been dashed due to lack of school fees.

Parents of the stranded pupil who scored aggregate 4 in last year’s Primary Living Examinations (PLE), Ms Bosco Ogwang and Ms Hellen Ameli, both volunteer community teachers, approached the Daily Monitor last week, appealing to well-wishers to sponsor their daughter to pursue further education.
After the story was published on Wednesday, 35 other well-wishers offered to help Ms Ejang to progress to secondary school.

KK Traveller has now committed Shs23m in the latest display of goodwill towards the education of Ms Ejang to join Mount Saint Mary’s Namagunga, her dream school.
KK Traveller announced a four-year full sponsorship for the education of Ms Ejang at their offices at Arua Park on Saturday.

“Our chief executive officer (Arua businessman, Idd Taban) saw this story and he decided we would help with the education of Ms Ejang,” Mr Idro Ashad Taban, the head of business at KK Traveller, announced on Saturday as he displayed a Shs23, 170,000 dummy cheque.

KK Travellers is a trading name of the transportation arm of Mr Taban’s string of investments, including real estate and hospitality business. He hails from West Nile and his KK Traveller buses ply the northern routes.
Ms Ejang thanked God and all people who have helped her get fees