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Wells Mountain Foundation offers the Empowerment through Education Scholarship Program for secondary school leavers to study for a Bachelors degree in Developing Countries for 2020 academic year.
What are the benefits?
- $3,000 USD.
- tuition and fees
- books and materials
- room rent and meals
Application Deadline: 1st March, 2020
Eligible Countries; Developing Countries
Accepted Subject Areas? All fields are eligible although WMF intends to favor helping professions such as health care, social work, education, social justice, as well as, professions that help the economy and progress of the country such as computers, engineering, agriculture, and business.
About the Award:
Wells Mountain Foundation offers undergraduate scholarships to students from developing countries to study in their home country or any other developing country. The foundation’s hope is that by providing the opportunity to further one’s education, the scholarship participants will not only be able to improve their own future, but also that of their own communities. The foundation believes in the power and importance of community service and, as a result, all scholarship participants are required to volunteer for a minimum of one month a year.
Applicants are only allowed to select a university in a developing country. Applications to study in UK, USA, Europe, and Australia will not be accepted
Type: undergraduate
Who is qualified to apply? To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, an applicant must be a student, male or female, from a country in the developing world, who:
- successfully completed secondary education, with good to excellent grades
- will be studying in their country or another country in the developing world
- plans to live and work in their own country after they graduate
- has volunteered prior to applying for this scholarship and/or is willing to volunteer while receiving the WMF scholarship
- may have some other funds available for their education, but will not be able to go to school without a scholarship
Number of Awards: 10 to 30 per year
How to Apply: Interested applicants are to click here to apply online.
You will be redirected to a portal where you will be asked to create a free account (username and password), fill out information and upload documents. We strongly suggest that you apply online as it will provide you with the opportunity to save your work and return multiple times. You will also guarantee that your application, once submitted online, will be received and reviewed.
File format types accpeted are: JPG, PNG, GIF, DOC, DOCX, PDF (version 10 or newer).
Visit Scholarship Webpage for details
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