Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (Her­itage) has launched a Schol­ar­ship pro­gramme called Her­itage Ed­u­ca­tion Re­source Op­por­tu­ni­ty (HERO).
The HERO pro­gramme will pro­vide fund­ing of up to $100,000 (over a pe­ri­od of up to 10 years), to sup­port the ed­u­ca­tion of top-per­form­ing SEA stu­dents from pri­ma­ry schools with­in the com­pa­ny’s fence­line and whose fam­i­lies are so­cioe­co­nom­i­cal­ly vul­ner­a­ble.

The fund­ing will go to­wards cov­er­ing ex­pens­es for each stu­dent from Form One to the at­tain­ment of a Bach­e­lor’s de­gree. With the as­sis­tance of pri­ma­ry school prin­ci­pals and coun­cil­lors from the fence­line com­mu­ni­ties, three very de­serv­ing stu­dents were se­lect­ed for the in­au­gur­al dis­tri­b­u­tion: She­quoiya George from Ran­cho Que­ma­do Pri­ma­ry, Je­hvan­ny Al­fred from Erin Road Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry and Shak­era Malchan from San­ta Flo­ra Pri­ma­ry.

Par­ents of the se­lect­ed stu­dents were on hand to sign an agree­ment that gov­erns the pro­gramme. Speak­ing at the launch, Deputy Chair­man of the Board of Her­itage, Reynold Ajod­has­ingh, ex­pressed his pride at this in­au­gur­al HERO pro­gramme of­fered in these com­mu­ni­ties, as these op­por­tu­ni­ties were not avail­able when he at­tend­ed school.

A for­mer pupil of Erin Road Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry, Mr. Ajod­has­ingh urged par­ents in at­ten­dance, to help their chil­dren make the most of their nat­ur­al bril­liance, by sup­port­ing them in keep­ing their aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance to a high stan­dard. Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Ar­lene Chow, em­pha­sized that the HERO pro­gramme was an­oth­er sig­nal of the com­pa­ny’s in­ten­tion to sup­port sus­tain­able ini­tia­tives in fence­line com­mu­ni­ties. “Our goal and our hope, is that these chil­dren be­come lead­ers who are able to be role mod­els and give back to their com­mu­ni­ties in the fu­ture.”

She al­so com­mend­ed the par­ents for the con­tri­bu­tion they have made in­to their chil­dren’s ac­com­plish­ments thus far. The Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Cor­po­rate So­cial Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty strat­e­gy is in­tend­ed to en­hance stake­hold­er con­fi­dence and con­tribute to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment with a fo­cus on its fence­line com­mu­ni­ties