Dear Friends and Supporters,

Allow us to start by thanking each one of you who supported us with a donation during this year’s fund drive. We are very grateful to all of you who have helped us for many years already and to our new donors. Due to your support, the children in Myanmar and Sri Lanka have a chance for a better future through education. They show their appreciation by studying as hard as each of them is able to.
 
Myanmar
The positive news is that despite continuing political upheaval, poverty, displacement, and the horrendous earthquake, many of our students in Myanmar completed the 2024/25 school year successfully and will continue to be supported.
 
The 2 scholarship programs for the 2025/26 school year have just been finalized.
In total 106 children (102 girls and 4 boys) will get a scholarship for the new school year starting in June 2025. This compares with 103 children for the 2024/25 school year and 41 in 2013/14, when we started in Myanmar.

Please join us in wishing all students success with their studies. Hopefully, the fighting in Chin State will cease or be at a minimum, to allow our scholarship recipients to comply with the requirements for continued scholarship support in the coming years.

(Details about the two programs in Myanmar can be found in Section ‘Scholarships’, in the article “Scholarships Myanmar 2013/14 – 2025/26”.)

Sri Lanka
The school year started in January 2025 and will finish in November. Economically it still is very difficult for many people, including our students, the teachers and the schools in general. Everyone hopes that the new Government will implement measures that will result in a brighter future for the country.

A total of 221 children (204 girls and 17 boys) are on our 3 programs in Sri Lanka.

(Details about the three programs in Sri Lanka can be found in Section ‘Scholarships’, in the article “Scholarships Sri Lanka 2006 – 2025”.)

Combined, in the second half of this year,

327 students (306 girls and 21 boys)

will receive scholarship support.

Exciting is that to date 237 students (182 in Sri Lanka and 28 in Myanmar) have graduated from High School, completing their education.

Without your strong support and compassion for the children it would not have been possible to provide scholarships in Sri Lanka since 2006 and in Myanmar since 2013/14.

All High School Graduates, and current students join us in expressing our sincere gratitude for your vital help.

Thank you.

Your Trustees of IFESCSF

Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 May 2025 07:30