Ten Rwandans, including seven women, will next week depart Rwanda to the United Kingdom after they were selected for this year’s Chevening Scholarship Programme, a programme that supports aspiring leaders from across the world to attain a master’s degree in some of the leading universities in Britain.

During a reception for this year’s scholars which was hosted by the UK High Commissioner to Rwanda, Omar Daair, it was announced that they will depart to the UK next week on September 20.

"We are looking for people who are trying to build skills that will help them develop their communities,” said Daair.

The students will pursue master’s degrees in different fields ranging from engineering, gender studies, and medicine to economics, law, public health, as well as energy and media studies, among others.

"Chevening opened doors for me that I am not sure I could have walked in, this experience opened me to a lot of opportunities,” testified Denise Rwakayija, a Chevening Alumina who obtained an MBA from Cardiff Business School.

She is currently the Managing Director of Rwanda Insurers’ Association (ASSAR).

"I work in energy standardization that’s why I want to learn more about this area right from policy to implementation,” says Patrick Rukundo a Mechanical Engineer at Rwanda Standard Board.

Rukundo will be pursuing his master’s degree in energy and climate policy at Sussex University.

He says that this is an opportunity to learn from the seventh-ranked sustainable state like the UK. "To me, this is an opportunity to learn from their ways of preserving and new technologies to tackle climate challenges.”