“No! I will not still my voice! I have too much to claim – if you see me looking at books or coming to your house of walking in the sun know that I look for fire! … And so if you see looking at your hands, listening when you speak, marching in your ranks, you must know I do not sleep to dream, but dream to change the world.”
– Martin Carter

The Scholarship Fund is hosting an essay competition in honor of the annual June National Caribbean American Heritage Month.

• Address the prompt: “I am a leader who is assisting in bringing about racial harmony despite my country’s historical racial problems and the inadequacy of adults to solve the problem. I am holding businesses, community and political leaders accountable from all ethnic groups.
• If given the opportunity, what actions would you take to ensure hundreds of millions of US dollars from the oil and gas industry be redirected for a world-class education to bring about true prosperity in Guyana?
• Exploring Space and the its importance to a country’s development
• Write an essay on former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s leadership quote: “Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.”
• Write an opinion on the extract from the paper “Why Better Governance Measures are Unlikely to Fix the Problem of Corruption” by Francis Fukuyama and Francesca Recanatini.