Scholarships for paper deliverers

Scholarships for paper deliverers

BANDUNG: The Jakarta-based Kompas morning daily awarded
scholarships to 1,437 of its newspaper carriers in the city.

About 80 of the recipients attended the ceremony at Gramedia
Bookstore.

Sony Kasiran, the daily's Bandung circulation manager, said
that most of the newspaper carriers are students in great need of
financial assistance.

This year, Kompas increased the number of scholarship
recipients by 40 percent, up from the 1,000 recipients in 1995.

The newspaper's management promised to support the paper
carriers financially until they finish their high school
education. (06)