Request for Help for Tashkent Students (fwd)

[Devin Browne]

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Date: Tue, Jun 20, 2000 2:16 PM -0700rFrom: Center for Civil Society
International <ccsi at u.washington.edu>rTo: CivilSoc
<civilsoc at friends-partners.org>rSubject: [CivilSoc] Request for Help for
Tashkent Studentsr

Joanne Young, vice-president of the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City
Association, has forwarded this request from Tashkent.  Any list
members with suggestions for help should respond directly to Mr.
William R. Daughtridge <bill at tis.uz>.
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Fr: Bill Daughtridge, Guidance Counselor
       Tashkent International School

Re: Request for Help for Uzbekistan students

I am contacting you on behalf of three students in our school.  One
year ago, we started a scholarship program which allows local
students to attend our expensive private school without paying any
tuition or fees.  We accepted three students into our 11th grade
class, chosen from a total of 19 candidates on the basis of their
scores on a practice ACT exam and personal interviews.

They have performed admirably well; in fact, two of the three are now
going into 12th grade competing for #1 and #2 in the class in terms
of their GPA.  This is all well and good but there is a BIG problem
looming on the horizon:  these young people come from families with
incomes of $1,500 per YEAR or less.  Of the 3,800 accredited colleges
and universities in the U.S.A., only 240 offer financial aid of any
kind to undergraduate foreign students.  Even if these kids are lucky
enough to get a 50% scholarship offer, typically that means their
families would still have to prove that they can pay 5-10 times their
annual income for the next four years, or the college/university will
never issue the I-20 form for them to get their student visa.
Obviously, this is impossible.

Would you know of any way to obtain financial help for these kids?
They need sponsors who will formally commit to making up the
difference in costs after they get scholarships--if they get
scholarships--in order for them to come to the U.S.A. to study after
graduating from our school.

Organizations or individuals willing to sponsor them could have the
privilege of having one of these exceptional Uzbek students come to
study in their region! Perhaps some individuals could help with a
sponsorship, even if only partially. Perhaps other benevolent,
charitable organizations would be willing to do this.

I would be grateful for suggestions of any ways to help these kids.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

Bill Daughtridge
bill at tis.uz
Guidance Counselor
Tashkent International School
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Devin P Browne
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