Kenyan students get Chinese helping hand

Many of third-year undergraduate Nicole Agong's schoolmates at Kenya's Moi University were busy preparing for their upcoming exams, but the psychology major had to face an additional challenge — paying her tuition fees.

Agong is an orphan and she depends financially on her frail grandmother, who is finding it hard to pay for the student's education. Having missed out on government bursary support, Agong decided to defer her studies for a second time.

But Agong recently resumed her studies when the Chinese embassy in Kenya awarded her a scholarship, with nine other student beneficiaries from her college.