Koshish Foundation, a US-and Pakistan-based non-profit organisation, committed on Monday to grant scholarships to 100 deserving and brilliant students of the NED University. “A recent scholarship commitment by Koshish Foundation will pay full tuition fee from 1st year to graduation for 100 NED students confronting financial challenges,” Anees Ahmed Khan, the foundation’s general secretary told a briefing at Karachi Press Club. He said the amount of scholarship would total at Rs 0.1 million per student that would have an accumulative financial impact of Rs 10 million. In this context he said, a ceremony was being organised by the foundation at the NED University on March 21. Also, at this ceremony the foundation members would be introducing “Learntive”, a Sindh-wide education initiative driven to address various difficulties facing the students of the province. “Students are forced to seek private tutoring (tuition). Many students are unable to get private tutorage because their families are unable to pay for the private lessons,” said Khan, who was flanked by the foundation’s president Jamaluddin Rajput. To determine who is needy and brilliant, he said teachers were the primary source to be contacted. He said from some 25 departments of the university had sent their recommendations in favour of the merited students. Koshish Foundation, which is registered in California, USA, is a group of Pakistani-American entrepreneurs based in Silicon Valley who believe in giving back to the institutions and communities they have benefited from.