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High School and University Scholarships
The CIS coordinates 14 scholarship programs with the support of sister organizations who support a specific community and scholarship recipients.
This is not your average scholarship program. The CIS’ primary criteria for selecting students is based on economic need due to the fact that students with scarce economic resources often go to school without breakfast, and as a result usually do not get the top grades.
CIS promoters provide monthly trainings and reflections to build awareness of youth roles as leaders in the community. These are not students who simply gain and education to be in a better position to migrate to the U.S or other countries. In 2009 141 High School and 30 University students were benefited from this program.
Scholarship Communities
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Sister Organizations
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- Estanzuelas
- San Rafael Cedros
- Cinquera
- Tamanique
- Comunidad Ellacuria
- San Antonio, Comasagua
- San Pedro Perulapán
- El Caoba
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- St. Patrick’s Church
- Our Lady of Presentation
- St. Robert Bellarmine and CIS Friends
- Assumption Church
- Notre Dame Prep School
- SEW and One Family
- Foundation for Cultural Exchange
- CIS Friend
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School for Solidarity & Social Transformation
The CIS initiated the “School for Solidarity & Social Transformation – Ernest Remer Jenkins” in July 2007 to train and form leadership for CIS staff and community leaders by organizing workshops in themes such as popular education, organizing methods, strategic planning, neo-liberal economic measures and their impact, water privatization and other themes.
The School in La Loma
In April 2009, the CIS completed the reconstruction of the school (destroyed in the earthquake of 1986) in La Loma, Comasagua, thanks to Rainbow of Hope for Children Foundation in Canada, St. Ann Parish in Missouri, and the CIS 30 Year Anniversary Rutilio Grande Delegation, making education accessible to 98 children and 46 adults in the community for the first time in 23 years. Additionally the Caravan of Hope and Ursuline Sisters of Canada contributed to the construction of 23 dry composting latrines in the community.
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