Standing at a podium and smiling, Felina Alumande spoke to her fellow graduates at the BYU–Pathway Completion Ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya—the country’s first-ever Church education graduation ceremony on April 25.
In a local meetinghouse, 140 Kenyan students watched Alumande, the valedictorian, as she said:
“We are not just graduates, we are evidence that education can bring change—evidence that faith and education together can change lives. Evidence that when determination meets purpose, miracles happen.” ...
For the first time ever in Jinja, Uganda, students were invited to a graduation ceremony for the 35 students receiving degrees and the 161 students receiving certificates from BYU–Pathway Worldwide’s PathwayConnect program. ...
Paul Mwiru, a member of the Ugandan Parliament, congratulated the students on their faith-based education, saying: “Education without good morals leads to unemployable graduates.”
For the 338 combined graduates across both countries, these good morals were embedded in their studies.
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