Orphans get scholarships from Novotel

YOGYAKARTA: As part of it social program, hotel Novotel Yogyakarta provided last week scholarships to two orphans who are students of SMP Muhammadiyah X Yogyakarta junior high school.

Novotel Yogyakarta's general manager Fabrice Mini, who is also the advisor of the hotel's Green Team 2005 -- a team that oversees environmental and social programs -- officially presented the scholarships on Saturday to the principal of the junior high school.

Upon presenting the scholarships, Fabrice expressed hope that the assistance would enable the two students to concentrate fully on their studies.

He said it was his wish that the hotel's management and employees would become like a second family to the orphans, and invited both students to participate in special employee activities. --JP