The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says it has start­ed pro­cess­ing pay­ments un­der the 2025 School Sup­plies and Book Grant for 20,000 stu­dents at­tend­ing gov­ern­ment and gov­ern­ment-as­sist­ed pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the min­istry con­firmed it is work­ing close­ly with the Min­istry of Fi­nance to se­cure the re­quired fi­nan­cial re­leas­es to be­gin dis­burse­ments.

The ini­tia­tive aims to dis­trib­ute $20 mil­lion in $1,000 grants to 20,000 el­i­gi­ble stu­dents, help­ing fam­i­lies meet the cost of es­sen­tial school sup­plies and learn­ing ma­te­ri­als.