The Director General of the FNE Honored

Around a hundred students organized a ceremony this Saturday, February 1, 2025, at the Banj premises in Delmas, to thank the Director General of the National Education Fund, Jean Ronald Joseph, as well as CORPUHA for granting undergraduate scholarships.

A project initiated under President Jovenel Moïse as part of a cooperation between the Conference of Rectors, Presidents and Leaders of Haitian Universities and Higher Education Institutions (CORPUHA) and the FNE, on behalf of the Haitian state.

This scholarship program, funded to the tune of 387 million gourdes, covers the training of 1500 male and female students from the CORPUHA university network, including GOC, UNDH, UNIKA, IHECE, and ESIH, for a period of four consecutive years.

In his address, the Director General of the FNE, Professor Jean Ronald Joseph, praised this public/private partnership which has helped these young people from various backgrounds in their university studies. « This training is only a beginning, a first step. We must go further, if possible, up to a doctoral thesis to become a professional who is both national and international to serve the whole world », emphasized Professor Joseph, offering valuable advice to the hundred students present for the occasion. He encouraged them to cultivate certain fundamental values in university life, notably critical thinking, a sense of reason, and scientific doubt.

For her part, the Executive Director of CORPUHA and Dean of IHECE, Yanick Damour, advocated for the perpetuation of the program for the benefit of students. She took the opportunity to honor the memory of the late President Jovenel Moïse, initiator of the project which, in its 2020 conception, was intended to be annual.

Last September marked the end of the agreement, whose beneficiaries are now demanding an internship program in public administration, allowing them to improve their skills and finally launch themselves definitively into the job market.