Award winners of 2018 Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) short term summer undergraduate students program from Food Science and Nutrition, Karatina University (Godfrey Mwiti, Gisore Mercy Kemunto, Cherono Mercy Alfred and Okomo Simon Aloo) and their lecturers.
The Korean Government Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) is short term summer program, awarded on a highly competitive basis to under graduate students from across Africa and Latin America. The aim of the program is to provide the participants with an in-depth academic training for 5 weeks along mentorship from Korea staff.
Out of the 20 students who were awarded 2018 GKS, four were 4th year BSc. Food Science and Nutrition (FSN) students from Karatina University who were the only winners from Kenya among the seven others from different African countries. They also won three of the four awards of the program