ABOUT THIS SCHOLARSHIP

The Māori Education Trust and Ti Maru Trust are offering scholarships to Māori students who are taking up the challenge of living and studying abroad on an AFS exchange. Scholarships are valued at $1,500.

For more information about the Māori Education Trust please visit
www.maorieducation.org.nz

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

• Any Māori student who is attending secondary school at the time of application and meets the AFS and application guidelines.

• This scholarship is available to students participating in a Year Programme only

HOW TO APPLY

The Māori Education Trust has total responsibility for the selection of the scholarship recipients and request that all applicants apply online on their website

There are two scholarship application deadlines:

• Round One closes 26 February 2010 (for students departing mid 2010)
• Round Two closes 30 October 2010 (for students departing early 2011)

• AFS Diversity Scholarship
• AFS Excellence Scholarship
• AFS Pasifika Scholarships
• Arthur Helm Scholarship
• Auckland Regional Scholarship
• BlueScope Limited
• C & F Mace Scholarship
• Evonik
• Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund
• Friends of AFS
• Jenesys Scholarship to Japan
• Māori Education Trust
• New Zealand Post Group
• Tenon Employees Educational Fund
• AFS Chapter Scholarships
• Linfox Scholarship
• South Auckland Counties Scholarship
• New Zealand Japan Young People's Exchange Programme
• Greyhound Scholarships
• AFS Scholarship for the Deaf

The Māori Education Trust has been working in partnership with AFS NZ since 1989 and in this time has sponsored over 170 students to take up the challenge to live and study overseas for one year.

”Now I understand my friends and family with ease. I can understand the jokes and laugh about them with the people here. When I meet up with friends from New Zealand on the exchange too we start talking in Spanish until we realize that talking in English would be a lot easier. When I talk to my parents I sometimes start talking in Spanish.”

Maori Education Trust Scholarship recipient, Lauren Kauri in Costa Rica.