27 January 2005 - Mrs. Rosie Lovely Romulo, Chairperson of the Department of Foreign Affairs Ladies Foundation (DFALF), announced today that applications for college and vocational scholarship grants for the school year 2005-2006 are now open to interested DFALF members and their children and other poor but deserving children of other DFA employees who are in need of financial assistance in their education.

Application forms are now available at the DFA Ladies Foundation, Inc. Office, 6th Floor, DFA, 2330 Roxas Blvd., Pasay City.  Deadline for submission of applications is on 28 February 2005.  The results of the selection procedure and the final list of awardees will be announced on the first week of April 2005.

At the meeting of the DFALF Board of Trustees, Mrs. Romulo expressed appreciation for the Board's untiring efforts to support the worthy project.

"We are also grateful to the generous sponsors and donors of the DFALF scholarship program, many of whom are Philippine diplomats, respected business leaders, members of the Chambers of Commerce, private companies, non-governmental organizations and foundations. DFALF has been fortunate to have the continuous support of the donors and sponsors since 1997, " she added.

The DFALF Scholarship Program started in 1997 with 11 scholars and since then, a total of 88 scholars have been recipients of the scholarship grants as of 2004.  Twenty-nine scholars have graduated from colleges and universities and seven have either finished vocational courses or secondary education. END
 

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