Kusuma Trust Gibraltar Annual Report 2010 - 2011 (790 KB)
Welcome to Kusuma Trust Gibraltar
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Kusuma Trust Gibraltar offers discretionary awards to promote the study of medicine, technology, engineering and business related studies at the 'top ten' universities. In an addition to these one discretionary scholarship for exceptional candidates exists for the performing/fine arts and one for sports excellence. 2012 will see the introduction of one annual Kusuma Excellence scholarship for studies in Humanities and competition for this is expected to be very high.
UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE IN UK AND US
The KUSUMA EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP (Gibraltar) scheme seeks to inspire top students to aim to reach the top of their academic game. Kusuma hopes that its scholars will become “Ambassadors of Excellence” in Gibraltar and inspire their fellow students to aim higher and achieve more. Kusuma has pledged £1,000,000 to the project.
APPLICATIONS OPEN ONLINE FROM MAY 1st 2012
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Community Projects
Kusuma aims to foster a culture of learning and innovation. It also seeks to support smaller partner organisations in building their fund raising capacity. In Gibraltar these include Women in Need, the Down’s Syndrome Support Group, Calpe House and a wide range of organisations aimed at bringing assistance and new opportunities to specific groups of people.
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Capital projects for Gibraltar
Detailed discussions have been held with the Gibraltar Government authorities to identify projects that will be of benefit to the community and which work well with or enhance areas
also identified as positive and in demand. One example already completed is the Europa Point project where the Kusuma Promenade along the cliff edge has been completed .
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GLOBAL XCHANGE
In order to facilitate volunteering for Gibraltar individuals, Kusuma has teamed up with VSO the world leader in international volunteering with over 50 years of experience. Global Xchange is a joint partnership between VSO and The British Council, it is a six-month exchange programme that is committed in supporting communities from around the world by bringing young people together and giving them the opportunity to experience volunteering. During the programme they will develop new skills and perspectives, live and work with people from other cultures and gain some valuable experience in understanding community development and global issues.
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CHARITY TRAINING
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We invite local charities to join us at our charity training fair on the 26th & 27th May 2012.
The Kusuma Trust are keen for local charities to be supported and so have initiated and funded a charity training fair in conjunction with the Directory of Social Change. Last year Five experts in their given fields including one trainer who was also a TEDx speaker, supplied a days worth of workshops covering topics such as 'Evaluation and Monitoring' 'Influence and Communication' and 'Business and Strategic Planning '. We hope this years event are even more successful.
Read MoreAWARDING EXCELLENCE
To promote excellence in Gibraltar the Kusuma Trust has set up the Kusuma Excellence Scholarship, aimed primarily at certain sciences, mathematics, medicine and business related subjects to be studied at top universities, the scheme has been extended to include a Fine/Performing Arts award and a Sports award. Among this years benefactors was Jordan Picardo, a sixteen year old dancer who was awarded a Fine/Performing Arts Scholarship to help with costs for his tuition at the English National Ballet.