Churches provide financial aid to help students pay tuition

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      Taiwan Church News

      3054 Edition

      September 6~12, 2010

       

       

      Churches provide financial aid to help students pay tuition

       

      Reported by Chen Wei-chien

      Written by Lydia Ma

       

       



      It’s the start of another school year and the time of the year 
when many parents are scrambling 

      to make ends meet and wondering once again how they will manage 
to afford their children’s 

      tuition fees this year in eye of the ever-increasing economic 
disparity between Taiwan’s 

      richest and poorest.

       



      To help some 42,000 financially struggling students across 
Taiwan go to school, World Vision 

      has begun a campaign to provide them with bursaries so they 
don’t give up their schooling 

      simply because they cannot afford it. 

       



      So far, the Changhua branch of World Vision has already handed 
out bursaries to 1,350 

      students from disadvantaged families. According to reports, 
preschool, elementary and junior 

      high school students have received NT$2,500, senior high school 
and vocational school 

      students have received NT$5,000, and college students have 
received NT$10,000.

        



      Most students benefitting from this program are from 
single-parent families, remote areas, off-

      shore islands, or raised by their grandparents because their 
own parents couldn’t take care of them.

       



      Shortly after last year’s financial crisis, Rev. Tsai Mao-tang 
from He-ping Presbyterian Church 

      in Taipei, a church devoted to college ministries, urged 
Christians to start a love fund to help 

      struggling families and managed to raise more than NT$5 
million. Now, the church is starting a 

      love fund especially for students to help them pay their way 
through college.

       



      In south Taiwan, a pastor’s wife from a church in the outskirts 
of Tainan City is urging fellow 

      Christians to donate money to help a youth from her church 
whose parents cannot afford her 

      high school tuition and living expenses. Lu Li-li has begun a 
fundraiser coined “Operation 

      Daddy Long-Legs” to help the girl and urged Christians to show 
their trademark kindness and generosity.

       

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