Higher education scholarships from Philip Morris to children of tobacco farmers in the North

In collaboration with La Regie Libanaise Des Tabacs & Tombacs (Regie), Philip Morris Lebanon distributed on Monday some 136 scholarships to children of tobacco farmers in the North who completed their high school studies. The activity comes within the framework of a larger initiative funded by Morris in support of learning and education. During the ceremony, the general director of the Regie, engineer Nassif Seqlawi, pointed out that for the 4th consecutive year, the state-run company has been jointly working with Tobacco International and Philip Morris to this end, stressing the importance of education in the advancement of societies. Seqlawi also underlined the pivotal role of the Regie to reduce the rate of school dropouts and empower the youth with proper skills and capacities that give them greater access to the labor market, adding that new scholarships will be allocated next year to the Beqaa region. To note, scholarships in the past three years have been assigned to Nabatieh, Marje3yoon and Tyre. (Al Mustaqbal, February 2, 2017)