HESLB: Required Documents for Diploma Loan Application 2024/2025

HESLB: Required Documents for Diploma Loan Application 2024/2025, how to apply HESLB Diploma Loan Online, HESLB Diploma Loan

The Higher Education Students’ Loans Board (HESLB) is a body corporate established under Act No.9 of 2004 (as amended in 2007, 2014 and 2016) with the objective of assisting needy and eligible Tanzania students to access loans and grants for higher education. 

The main mandates of HESLB include:

To assist, on a loan basis, needy students who secure admission in accredited higher learning institutions, but who have no economic power to pay for the costs of their education

To collect due loans from loan beneficiaries and use it as revolving fund to sustain operations of the Board

To create synergies through establishing strategic partnerships in student financing ecosystem

RELEVANT DOCUMENTS TO SUPPORT DIPLOMA LOAN APPLICATION

The following are key documents to support the application:-

(i) Birth certificate (Birth certificate) approved by relevant authorities, ZCSRA for applicants born in Zanzibar or verification number from RITA for applicants born in Mainland Tanzania;

(ii) Parents’ Death certificates (Death certificates) to prove orphan status approved by relevant authorities, ZCSRA for death that was registered in Zanzibar or verification number from RITA for death that was registered in Mainland Tanzania;

(iii) A letter from RITA or ZCSRA to validate birth information for applicants born abroad. Also a letter from RITA or ZCSRA to validate the information provided for applicants whose parent(s) died abroad;

(iv) Disability Form to prove applicant’s or parents’ disability endorsed by District Medical Officer (DMO) or Regional Medical Officer (RMO);

(v) Social Support Beneficiary’s number from Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) to prove financial assistance received by an applicant during precollege schooling