The federal government is contributing $25,000 to a scholarship fund created in the name of the first Canadian woman soldier to die in Afghanistan.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the Capt. Nichola K. S. Goddard Memorial Graduate Scholarship at the University of Calgary is a “deserving and admirable cause” and he hopes his government’s contribution will encourage others to donate.

Goddard, a member of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery based in Shilo, Man., was killed in action on May 17; she was buried at the National Military Cemetery in Ottawa on June 7.

The scholarship program was created by her family to honour and celebrate her life.

It is open to graduate students attending the University of Calgary who are citizens of Papua New Guinea, Goddard’s place of birth, as well as citizens of Afghanistan, the place of her death.

The annual scholarship is also extended to Canada’s First Nations, Inuit or Metis people, with whom Goddard spent many of her formative years.

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