EBO Scholarship avialable for young Kachins

Dear Shirley(Kachins)


We are writing to you to ask you for your support in finding students to be
considered to study at the Martin Luther Christian University (MLCU) in
Shillong, North Eastern India www.mlcuniv.in. The university has agreed to work
with EBO to support individual students and channel them into appropriate
schemes to match their academic or vocational skills and background. The aim
would be for the students to come out with a bachelor’s degree or the
equivalent vocational qualification. EBO will support all costs (both academic fees and
living costs). This scheme would involve the student spending approximately four
years in Shillong (depending on the length of the course defined by the
university on arrival).

The EBO aims at including the most disenfranchised communities, so the students
you put forward do NOT have to be the most talented or exceptional candidates.
The only prerequisite from our side is that the young people have experience of
working with civil society groups or their communities, and have proven
commitment to working for their communities. We would like each student to sign
a contract with EBO to say they agree to working for their community for a
further 2 years after they have finished their studies. We would also like to
encourage female participation in this scheme.

Therefore we ask the following requirements from all candidate students:

1. A letter from a civil society group or community based organisation in
support of the candidate;

2. CV and covering letter from the candidate;

3. Legal travel documents (ie passport);

4. Minimum academic qualifications (Between 10 or 12 years of schooling).

5. Good written and spoken English (the course will be in English –
please
submit TOEFL scores/results).

The MLCU academic year starts in July, but the deadline for applications is
April 2010. Therefore, we need to make a selection quickly, so we would like to
ask you to send applications for candidates to us by 10 March 2010. The
submissions for candidates should be sent to india@euro-burma.be and
ebo@euro-burma.be.

We can only afford to support 10 students in 2010. We therefore are asking for
only a limited amount of candidates for this first round and hope that you may
be able to give these potential candidates careful thought. Please consider who
might be the best candidates to take full advantage of this opportunity, but
please remember they do not have to be the most talented or successful. We do
not want to disappoint large numbers of young people, so please try and limit
your selection to two candidates at first. If you have more possible candidates
in mind, please let us know when you submit the first two candidates, and we
will let you know if there are more spaces available for you to suggest more
candidates at a later date.

Warm regards,

Sarah Collen

On behalf of the EBO Management Committee
Euro-Burma Office
Square Gutenberg 11/2
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium

tel: (32 2) 280 0691 / 2452
fax: (32 2) 280 0310
e-mail: ebo@euro-burma.be

website: www.euro-burma.eu

The aim of the Euro-Burma Office is to promote the development of democracy in
Burma by assisting the Burmese democracy movement to prepare for a transition to
democracy.