{"id":128,"date":"2014-09-14T23:39:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T23:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/?p=128"},"modified":"2018-10-02T21:12:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T05:12:13","slug":"sri-lankan-educational-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Girls Educational Scholarships- Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C.O.L.O.R. is providing educational scholarships for underprivileged girls in Sri Lanka. Only $360 sponsors a child&#8217;s education for an entire year! These scholarships cover all educational needs including books, tutors, tuition, and other schooling costs.<\/p>\n<h2>How Scholarships Work:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Awardees are given approximately 3,000 Rupees ($30.00 US) per month for educational costs.<\/li>\n<li>Scholarship is good for 1 year at which time their grades and progress is reassessed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>To Qualify for Scholarships, Children:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Must have low income household.<\/li>\n<li>Must show academic achievements.<\/li>\n<li>Must be recommended by teacher, school staff, or community.<\/li>\n<li>Must show progress while in the program.<\/li>\n<li>Parents cannot have any drug or alcohol problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Benefits:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>C.O.L.O.R. covers educational cost for child.<\/li>\n<li>Children are encouraged and motivated to be successful.<\/li>\n<li>Children are able to enroll in extra tutoring which can help them to qualify for additional government scholarships and free university educations in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/?p=117\">Keshala&#8217; s Story<\/a> &#8230;. an inspirational story about one girls path to education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.O.L.O.R. is providing educational scholarships for underprivileged girls in Sri Lanka. Only $360 sponsors a child&#8217;s education for an entire year! These scholarships cover all educational needs including books, tutors, tuition, and other schooling costs. How Scholarships Work: Awardees are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-scholarship","category-srilanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}