PROCESS TO FIND ABANDONED / ORPHANED AND DISABLED CHILDREN

1. Managing Process:  The Do Luan Foundation has relied on teachers, religious leaders or community leaders for finding abandoned / orphaned and disabled children.  The Foundation works hand-in-hand with teachers/leaders to identify certain regions of Vietnam where there are greatest need for assistance and where financial scholarship could make the most impact to abandoned/orphaned and disabled children.
2. Leaders Qualification:  The following criteria to select qualifying school teachers, religious leaders or community leaders to identify abandoned/orphaned and disabled children:

• Visit or interview teachers/leaders thru one-on-one discussion, phones and emails.
• Inspect the dwelling places and caring for abandoned/orphaned and disabled children.
• Recommendation letter of qualifying children from teachers/leaders.
• Vocational and job training programs for children.
• Medical clinic for providing affordable services for children.
• Clean drinking water and food for children.

3.  Children Qualification:  The following criteria to determine qualifying abandoned/orphaned and disable children:

• Review the required paperwork of qualifying children such as birth certificates, school progress reports, etc.
• Prioritize the children need based on severe poverty and neglect victim.
• Qualified children need to have clean background records.  The records will be screened by teachers or leaders.

GUIDELINE FOR SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS

Objective:  The initial and main objectives of the Foundation are to provide financial assistance to the underprivileged children and students through scholarships and grants.

1. The main activities of the Foundation are to make educational grants to the underprivileged children / students to help them improve their economic conditions and better contribution to society.  The Foundation will only make one kind of educational grant:  scholarships to young students who demonstrate financial needs and who demonstrate potential for benefit from further education through their past scholastic achievements.  The grants are not to be repaid.
2. A small amount of scholarship funds are made to orphan students who demonstrate financial needs and who demonstrate potential for benefit from further education through their past scholastic achievements; those students.  The grants are not to be repaid.

Criteria:     Applicants must be currently enrolled in a public school within designated area.  Applicants must maintain a high grade average.  Student applicants must have two reference letters from teacher or religious leaders attesting to her good moral character:  industry, honesty, community service, respect of authority and regulations, and achievable goal of higher education.  Applicants must write essays about their plans for the future.

Process:     Scholarship grants are announced through school, and community leaders of the targeted areas.