Donor Story:
Established in September 2017 by Janet Farooq, B.A.(Hons)1966, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to female students who have experienced an interruption in their formal education and who are registered in any Faculty or School at Queen's University. Applications are to be made to the Ban Righ Centre.
About the Fund:
My late husband Ghazi Farooq stressed the crucial importance of education for women for the development of any country in his 1970 PhD thesis on labour force in Pakistan. He continued to do so throughout his long United Nations career. And I know that, without the assistance of a substantial bursary in my final year granted to me by Jean Royce, Registrar, I might not have completed my undergraduate degree at Queen’s nor gone on to a PhD and a United Nations career myself. We trust that this award will encourage women to pursue their education and contribute to progress in their chosen field.
