{"id":55549,"date":"2017-10-27T09:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T07:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=55549"},"modified":"2017-10-27T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T07:47:20","slug":"national-bank-of-malawi-commits-k32m-to-student-sponsorships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/national-bank-of-malawi-commits-k32m-to-student-sponsorships\/","title":{"rendered":"National Bank of Malawi commits K32m  to student sponsorships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> National Bank of Malawi (NBM) has committed K32 million in scholarship support to 20 students pursuing various programmes at The Polytechnic in Blantyre.<br \/>\nEach student will get K1.6 million.<br \/>\nSpeaking when the bank unveiled the multi-million kwacha sponsorship programme, NBM Chief Executive Officer, Macfussy Kawawa, said education is a priority among the bank\u2019s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.<br \/>\n\u201cThat is why we did not hesitate when we were approached by The Polytechnic alumni to support some students at the school,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nKawawa shared his own personal academic journey to inspire the students to make the best of the sponsorship.<br \/>\n\u201cThe best way you can pay back the good others have done to you is to also help others who are in need,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nRepresentative of The Polytechnic alumni group, Newton Kambala, thanked NBM for the support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Bank of Malawi (NBM) has committed K32 million in scholarship support to 20 students pursuing various programmes at The Polytechnic in Blantyre. Each student will get K1.6 million. Speaking when the bank unveiled the multi-million kwacha sponsorship programme, NBM Chief Executive Officer, Macfussy Kawawa, said education is a priority among the bank\u2019s Corporate Social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55561,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55549\/revisions\/55561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}