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Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - Brilliant high school students in the upper classes living in isolated rural areas, or from poor families in urban districts, may have a chance to change their future through a 3 year 2010-2012 Young Talents project, organised by the Faculty of Social Science and Management FSSG at the Catholic University of Central Africa (UCAC) run by the Jesuit Fathers, by MAGIS an Italian Jesuit NGO, and funded by the Italian Bishops' Conference CEI. The news was sent to Fides by the Jesuit Generalate in Rome. “There is no better means of breaking the vicious circle of poverty from which many families cannot escape. We have seen that if one members of the family emerges, this opens the way for others ”, says Fr Ludovic Lado S.J., vice dean of the della FSSG. About 200 students will be selected the first year. “We will ascertain the sincerity and seriousness of each to reduce to the minimum the risk that they may give up, a rather remote possibility seeing the strict selection and sacrifices requested of the families ” the priest adds. The students will then start preparatory courses before entrance exams for Schools of Superior Formation and University. Once accepted the students will be accompanied and may benefit from a fund which will give them partial support during the future years of study. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 21/07/2010)
