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Setting up a scholarship fund
rlay1:
Thank you all for your feedback so far.
@iamjames It is a public high school and as I understand it other than the P500 contribution, tuition is free. Accommodation would not be necessary as students reside locally. So really, the scholarship would be for school supplies, books and maybe food.
@JoeLP You raise some interesting points about setting up a trust and involving lawyers which I had not even considered.
My asawa knows the school principal and a lot of the senior teachers there, so I think we would just have to trust the school to do the right thing. We have already set up a meeting with the principal to discuss the finer details.
@FastWalk I have previously donated to other charities, but I really had no idea where the money was going to.
I suppose my reason for doing this is to give back directly to the school and community that my asawa grew up in.
Now all I have to do is work out how much would be a reasonable amount:
- school supplies
- meals?
- anything else?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
R.
JoeLP:
All those questions have answers that can vary depending on things like location and the people living there.
I suggest you just be careful. I know of 2 cases where local schools got help and both times burned the foreigners who helped them. On school got a library completely built and the couple got books from friends in Canada to fill most the shelves. After 2 years of it being good for the kids the couple took their normal trip back to Canada only to return to an empty library and no one telling them what happened. A few months later it was turned into a teachers lounge.
Another guy did something similar to another school. An Aussie built a complete new wing when the school asked for help so it could start a college level educational school. He built a complete 2 story wing with over 12 classes in it only for the school to use it part for more high school rooms and the rest for teacher lounges and at one point let teachers live there in some of the rooms.
Not saying that will happen to you...but just to give you some ideas of what can happen down the road. Try and do some research into what's going on at that school and what is needed and look for ways that they could abuse what you're offering to do to help before taking that final step is my suggestion.
rlay1:
Thanks for the heads up JoeLP.
I suppose it should not be too much of an ask for the school to provide names and details of the scholarship recipient?
Asawa still has batchmates that still live within the province, so we can get them to keep an eye on things.
piozam13:
what about financial assistance to graduates going to college? currently those in school "can make it". but there maybe academically worthy students whose parents cannot afford to send them to college. i was approached by one before. she finished a 4 year course. i paid for tuition fees and gave her a monthly allowance. when she found gainful employment she wanted to pay me back. i told her to help someone in need - that meant more to her and me.
JoeLP:
--- Quote from: piozam13 on May 26, 2018, 07:14:30 AM ---what about financial assistance to graduates going to college? currently those in school "can make it". but there maybe academically worthy students whose parents cannot afford to send them to college. i was approached by one before. she finished a 4 year course. i paid for tuition fees and gave her a monthly allowance. when she found gainful employment she wanted to pay me back. i told her to help someone in need - that meant more to her and me.
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I think Piozam is on to something here. Tina had 2 cousins and now our house keep's daughter that we have, or are putting through college. Her cousins were a different story, kinda. Public college is now free in the Philippines, in the same way the public elementary and high school educations are free. You still need to pay for things, just not tuition. That said, neither of her cousins could have started their college without our paying for it. The younger of the 2 brothers was in college when it became free, so we just helped with the extra costs then. The house keep's daughter will get a full education free, again, except the extras.
Maybe set up something that helps them with their extras costs for college. The books, the fees and such that a college assesses. Even if you want a job at the local Jolibees here in rural Northern Samar...you need to at least be in college. So a HS diploma alone doesn't do much.
I know that if we didn't pay for Irish's fees, her mother would be very hard put to do it. She has other fees she needs to deal with concerning her other daughter and the 2 grandkids with that daughter.
I'm sure there are other kids who graduated HS and want college...but cannot afford the books and fees.
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