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SCHOLARSHIPS FOR VULNERABLE ROMA SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

30. November 2012.

Source: Narodne novine - Nis / Source: Narodne novine - Nis / Bujanovac - The "Help the Children" NGO from Belgrade announced a competition for granting 20 scholarships in the 2012/2013 school year to secondary school students coming from disadvantaged families in Bujanovac and Vranje.

The competition was announced for the awarding of ten scholarships to Roma first-year students who study in Bujanovac and Vranje, or who live in those two municipalities, as well as for the awarding of 20 more scholarships to Roma students who are doing the other years of their studies.  

The scholarships are awarded from the funds  of the project “By Knowledge and Skills against Poverty”, which is financed by the “Caritas” Foundation from Luxembourg, the amounts of which shall be identical to those of the scholarships awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science, it was said in a statement.

The competitions are posted on the site www.pomocdeci.org, while the deadline for submitting the applications for both competitions is December 14, 2012.