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Student Representative Council Trust Fund

The Trust Fund is mainly an amount of money set aside and administered by the University to assist students in financial difficulties. The funds can and will be granted as per the specific needs of students and in accordance with the guidelines as prescribed in this document. The available funds are fairly limited and are existent chiefly to provide supplementary support to students in genuine financial difficulties.

Financial assistance from the fund is not a loan and therefore neither the principal amount nor any interest is repayable to the University at the end of the academic year in which the assistance was granted. Because of and informed by the sad reality that most students often find themselves in financial difficulties during their time at university and most unfortunately, due to reasons not of their own doing, and furthermore because of the conviction on the part of the University that tertiary education must not and will not be an exclusive privilege of the rich in perpetuity, the University of Johannesburg has taken a conscious decision to establish a trust fund to assist needy students primarily with but not limited to registration fees.

However much the Trust Fund is a source of financial assistance to students, it must not be seen or misconstrued as the primary source of funding for any student. The sole purpose of the Student Trust Fund (hereafter referred to as the Fund) is to assist students who are or who are to be in the University system and who are financially needy.


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Meal Assistance

This Meal Assistance allocations are meant to assist the students from impoverished backgrounds with hot meals every day for all the students who cannot afford to buy themselves meals when they are in campus. The Meal Assistance Programme is meant to cover students who are not receiving any meal assistance from any Department or Faculty within the University.

The main aim of this Meal assistance Programme is to assist students from impoverished backgrounds who are not funded by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme or any Meal Assistance from the University. The main target of the Meal Assistance Programme are students who are not receiving any funding for meal assistance. Evidence and experience has shown that students in Institutions of Higher learning suffer from food insecurity.

The escalating numbers of students who go to bed hungry within our institution necessitated University Management to consider having a food kitchen where to meals are served every day across our four campuses namely, Auckland Park Kingsway, Doornfontein, Bunting Road and Soweto Campus. Inefficiency and poor coordination on the part of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) resorting in long delays with disbursement of funds and the inadequacy of food vouchers have further necessitated the University to have a feeding scheme.