On this Website you can find and download all neccessary documents for your application to our program BEARERS OF HOPE FOR AFRICA.  
Please sent your application (including Annex A, B and C) to office [at] nlwworldwide.com.  If you have any questions, let us know.

We are looking forward to your application.

Dorothea Schermer
And the team from NLW

Good vocational training for young women and girls from poor backgrounds in Africa is almost impossible. Solid vocational training is only possible through university studies, which are fee-paying.

There is an urgent need for highly qualified staff in many of the individual projects the respective religious missionary orders, with whom NLW works, are involved in. Furthermore, the small clinics, schools and other projects are in unattractive places such as very rural regions or slums.

Lacking financing and professional capacities are part of everyday life. The projects and the work in the religious order suffer.

We propose to remedy this situation with the scholarship program "Bearers of hope”. We intend to solve several problems at once. We offer young, talented and socially committed women from poor backgrounds in various African countries the opportunity to study for the qualifications needed and subsequently work for 3-5 years in one of the projects of our partner religious orders, with a corresponding salary being earned when qualified. During their studies, the students should already work on the projects in order to gain experience and to be close to the orders.

Young women can apply from February until latest by April of a year. Start for the scholarship is at autumn semester in August or September. At this time, female students must be 18 years old.

If the studies are cancelled or the agreement is not adhered to, the grant money is to be refunded.

This does not only mean the training of one person but help for many needy people in the projects. With the support of the young graduates, the projects become successful. Society receives role models. All win with this promotion program, a really lasting solution to a most urgent problem!