ICEVI: WORLD CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE
FYI:
International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment
(ICEVI)
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WORLD CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE
The "scholarship committee" headed by Grace Chan, Treasurer of ICEVI is in
the process of generating funds to help make it possible for those who
cannot
otherwise afford to participate in the World Conference to do so. The final
amount of support that will be available in the special fund will not be
known
until early 2006. However, we do know at this time that at least US $
100,000 will be available from a special reserve fund that was established
at the
start of this quadrennium. Decisions on how this support will be distributed
will be made by Regional Chairs and their committees using guidelines from
the Executive Committee. In addition to financial need and the ability of
the applicant to raise part of the support from other sources the Committees
have been asked to give priority to those applicants who have had a
presentation accepted by the Program Committee. Allocation of available
funds to each
region will be based upon a formula agreed upon by the Executive Committee
that takes into account three factors for each region that include;
population,
average per capita income and average cost of airfare from points within
each region to Kuala Lumpur. This formula applied to each region means that
the
total sum available in the scholarship fund will be distributed to regions
as follows:
Africa..20%
East Asia..15%
Europe..11%
Latin America..17%
North America and Caribbean..09%
Pacific..08%
West Asia..20%
Those who feel they may be eligible to apply for such support are encouraged
to contact with their regional chairperson and to consider early submission
of an abstract to the Program Committee. More information on the
"scholarship fund" will be forthcoming in future issues of The Educator and
The ICEVI
Newsline and on the ICEVI website. Contact information of all regional
chairs can be found on the inside cover of The Educator and on the website
of ICEVI
http://www.icevi.org
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