Scholarship for Palestinian Bachelor Students from Ahdaf

Ahdaf is offering Palestinian students with financial difficulties the opportunity to apply for bachelor degree scholarships at a university in the West Bank or Gaza. 

Eligibility Criteria:

To apply for this scholarship, applicants:

• Must be intending to undertake study for your first undergraduate degree
• Have not attended university before and may consider students who are enrolled and in their first year
• Must be intending to study at a university in the West Bank or Gaza
• Have to run a project for the duration of your studies. This means you need to look at your community and think about what you can do to make it a better place for everyone.
• Need to think about how you can make a positive contribution to your community
• Must fill out the entire application form. Incomplete forms will be rejected

Note: 

Please consider the following as you complete your application:

• Have a strong community project proposal which is well researched and thought out
• Be in serious financial difficulty
• Doing well at school
• Young people who have not yet enrolled on a course

Previous Successful Ideas

Some students have clearly thought very hard about how they can effect change in their communities and we have had some excellent submissions over the years. Here are some ideas we’ve had in the past:

1. Establishing a local library
2. Teaching English at a UN school
3. Helping establish a needlework group
4. Producing youth group video diaries
5. Providing computer coaching to children or re-training adults with new skills
6. Setting up a sports team
7. A Nakba history project
8. Local land use documentation projects
9. Working with disabled people
10. Setting up youth theatre programs
11. Running play sessions in orphanages
12. Helping to restore historic buildings
13. Running adult literacy groups
14. Planting a public garden

Ineligibility:

There are some factors that may not help an application:

• you have already started university
• you are studying medicine or a course that takes longer than four years
• your family has regular income
• your family is able to pay for brothers and sisters to go to university

Scholarship Amount:

Ahdaf pays your tuition fees, but not travel, registration or any other fees.

About ِAhdaf

Ahdaf aims to build Palestine for a new Palestine tomorrow by empowering young people, developing society and reaching higher education in this country, and make young people as community leaders, critical thinkers, active participants in building civil society and influencing public policy and development.

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