BHP is pleased to announce the award of its annual Scholarship Program for 2018 for the Jansen Potash Project in collaboration with Carlton Trail College of Humboldt. A total of $75,000 in scholarships has been awarded to recent high school graduates and returning post-secondary students from communities and First Nations around the Jansen Project.

Sixteen scholarships, each with a value of $2,500, were presented to high school graduates and returning post-secondary students from 10 schools in the Horizon School Division surrounding BHP’s Jansen Project.  As well, 13 youth from six First Nations communities received scholarship awards totalling $35,000. The recipients are as follows:

A 2018 scholarship recipient stated that the “education of young people is so important for our society and this scholarship has helped make this possible for many people from communities in the area. I would like to thank you personally for giving me and my classmates the chance to apply for this scholarship and making a difference in the lives of so many.”

Carlton Trail College administers the scholarship program on BHP’s behalf and provides a committee that adjudicates the applications and selects the recipients based upon an evaluation process.

Since the program’s inception in 2013, BHP has made available over $387,000 worth of scholarships which has supported over 135 students