Financial Aid Information and Links
Amizade’s mission is to empower people and communities through worldwide service and learning. That is why Amizade experiences are among the most affordable comprehensive and thoughtful programs of their kind.
Frequently students receive credits through Amizade programs that are more affordable than the credits they receive on their home campuses. And course experiences are always more affordable than traveling and earning university credits would be if done separately. Nonetheless, programs may still seem expensive. Amizade raises money to be able to provide scholarships itself, but some of the most generous scholarship opportunities are typically with your home college or university.
This page indicates what funding is available through your own university, Amizade, and Amizade-organized events.
University Financial Aid
Scholarships and Professional Development
Most colleges and universities offer scholarships for study abroad. Check with your study abroad office at your home institution. Additionally ask your department chair, service-learning director, or dean. More and more universities are suggesting they support educating students for global citizenship and global employment options – and many universities are financially supporting their students’ global efforts.Student Loans
Explore your financial aid options in terms of deferred loans from local banks, grants, and federal financial aid. Your Study Abroad Office and/or Financial Aid Office at your home institution can further discuss these options with you.
Amizade Financial Aid
Amizade Events
Amizade organizes annual events that allow students to raise money for international service and learning while also raising awareness about global social issues. To learn about and participate in these events, click on:
- Water Walk for Women’s Rights, Pittsburgh, PA, April 25
- Water Walk for Women’s Rights, Morgantown, WV, April 26 (pdf)
- Do it in the Dark Walk/Run/Bike for Global Service-Learning, Friendship, and Understanding in Morgantown, October, 2008
Amizade Scholarships
Amizade offers tuition scholarships to qualified students based on financial need.
Amizade Scholarship Application (pdf)
Your Creativity and Efforts
Students who want to raise money for Amizade courses are always able to do so. They typically begin very early, ask for little bits of assistance from their friends and family members, inquire about support from their previous places of employment, ask for funding from local Rotary Clubs, inquire at their family’s place of worship, and continuously make requests from many and diverse offices and individuals at their home universities. Students have raised hundreds by asking friends and family members to give them scholarship gifts instead of stuff over the holidays or for their birthdays; they’ve raised more through their own individual potlucks and parties. Students who set goals, plan for the process, and follow through have raised money successfully. The most important step is to ask.