Jack & Jill Scholarships for GMIT, Castlebar

GMIT’s Castlebar Campus in association with the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation officially launched a new scholarship programme for students of GMIT Castlebar Campus which will be funded through the collection of unwanted mobile phones.  The new scholarships, valued at €1,000 each, will be awarded to students who have played an active part in fundraising and awareness raising for charities, with these students nominated by staff and students of the Castlebar Campus and the winner selected by an independent panel.  Each of the new scholarships will be funded through the collection and recycling of 350 unwanted mobile phones which will be recycled and the cash raised converted into home nursing care for Jack & Jill families nationwide, as well as supporting the GMIT Castlebar Campus students. 
The new scholarship was launched by Dr Barbara Burns, Head of GMIT Castlebar Campus and GMIT Castlebar Students’ Union President Alan Judge (pictured above) along with Catherine Terry from the Jack & Jill Foundation.  According to Dr. Barbara Burns, Head of GMIT Castlebar Campus, “The collection of mobile phones fulfills two aims for GMIT Castlebar Campus, one is creating scholarships for our students and the second is helping the campus in its Green Campus initiative working towards earning an An Taisce Green Flag.  GMIT Castlebar signed up to the Green Campus Programme just over a year ago.”