[D9640general] [eFlash_Rotary] Digest Number 750

[Garry Krischock]

1. 1428: Foundation selects Ambassadorial Scholars from low-income coun 


Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:12 pm (PST) 
Foundation selects Ambassadorial Scholars from low-income countries

The Rotary Foundation has selected 27 people from low-income 
countries to receive Ambassadorial Scholarships for university 
studies in 2008-09.

The scholarships, which aim to promote international goodwill, allow 
recipients to study almost any field at a college or university in 
another country.

The 27 recipients are citizens of Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, 
Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Tanzania, among other areas. Their 
places of study will include Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities, 
both in the United States; Simon Fraser University in Canada; Uppsala 
University in Sweden; and Victoria University of Wellington in New 
Zealand. They intend to take courses in fields such as law, 
psychology, medicine, business, and public health.

The scholars will join those from industrialized countries who also 
have been selected by the Foundation for 2008-09. Whereas the 
Ambassadorial Scholars from developed countries will be financed by 
the District Designated Fund, the others will be funded by the 
Scholarships Fund Pool for Low-Income Countries. Each year, only 10 
percent of Ambassadorial Scholars are from low-income countries each 
year. 

Since it was created in 1947, the Ambassadorial Scholarships program 
has supported more than 38,000 students from about 100 countries, for 
a total of more than US$490 million. It provides grants to more 
students than any other privately funded, university-level 
international scholarships program in the world

Source: TRF
Courtesy: eFlash_Rotary
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