Scholarship Donations for CSDi Online Development Courses:
Designed to help field staff in developing nations learn to build long-term impact into their humanitarian development projects. During the courses, each student builds a unique impact-oriented project from the ground up.

These are real projects, in real communities, where students use their class assignments in the field to advance their work in improving the lives of their beneficiaries. Each week, student projects are reviewed by CSDi staff who make suggestions to keep project development on track. See an example of a field assignment with photos.

Field staff from 120 different countries have investigated participating in these courses: A plea for scholarship assistance from hopeful attendees living in the poorest nations in the world has suddenly landed on our doorstep.

Your donation can help their organizations bring success to water, health, nutrition, and education projects—and hope for the future for mothers and children rising out of poverty. In 2010 alone, scholarship recipients from 57 countries have been developing projects that will and are impacting the lives of 70,000 people.

"Had I not enrolled in the courses, I would not have known the impact I can make in my own community. I feel empowered by the knowledge, tools and techniques that I have learnt, and I am certainly on my way to making a difference!
Ivy d'Costa, Tanzania

Hear what other students have to say about the program.

Please meet a few of our past scholarship recipients: Read about what your donation can do.

Margaret Muthui

Kenyan Maggie Muthui is the Program Director for the Benevolent Institute of Development Initiatives—BIDII—an NGO specializing in water, sanitation and education projects. Maggie used her scholarship to develop a project designed to provide 500 families—3000 villagers—with fresh water saving women the task of walking 10km several times a day carrying 20 liter containers on their backs. This project will also positively impact village health and hygiene.

Ekua Ansah-Eshon
	Ghana-based Ekua Ansah-Eshon is Executive Coordinator of Advocates & Trainers for Women's Welfare Advancement & Rights—an NGO focused on empowering women through skills training, enterprise development & programs on family dynamics. Ekua used her scholarship to develop a project to reduce teenage pregnancies & create a positive future for teenage mothers through teaching reproductive rights & a program of vocational and entrepreneurial training.
Omondi Aloo
	Omondi Aloo, Civil Society Coordinator at Progressio in Yemen—a UK NGO that has been working in Yemen since 1973 on programs designed to enable poor communities to solve their own problems. Omondi used his scholarship to develop a project to help 500 families (5,000 people) in the remote village of Al Sharkiyah suffering from chronic ill health caused by contaminated water gain knowledge of good hygiene practices and gain access to fresh water.
Jessica Gerdel
	Jessica Gerdel, of Caracas, Venezuela, used her scholarship to develop a program designed to help 50 teenagers connect to their neighborhood called ‘El Valle’ through helping them gain better access to education and recreational facilities in an effort to reduce juvenile delinquency. Hers is a socio-cultural program and has an interesting component of introducing these young people to an oral history of their community in an effort to help them better identify with their community.
Uranchimeg Bavuudorj
	Urna, of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, used her scholarship to develop a program to help pastoralists build mid and long-term resistance to extreme weather conditions, isolation, and a shortage of food, shelter, clothing and health facilities after suffering a double shock: a summer drought and an extreme winter which killed hundreds of thousands of their livestock. She now works for the UN Population Fund in Mongolia.

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Your contribution to scholarship funds for field staff too poor to pay on their own will work to improve humanitarian development on an international basis. These international workers learn how to help community members end suffering, rise out of the cycle of poverty, and lead healthy, productive, prosperous lives.

Scholarships are only $100.00 each—and assist one student complete a matched pair of courses—but any size donation helps: $50.00 or $25.00 gives you a share in a scholarship.

"This course has opened my destiny." Jennifer Alwero, Uganda

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Scholarship Recipients from 57 countries
Argentina, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia , Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, Serbia, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Projects Developed have Included:
Income generation, clean water, education, sanitation, gender equity, migration, vocational training, chronic diarrhea and malnutrition in small children, roads to villages, marginalization, shelter, food shortages, illiteracy, environmental degradation, drought, irrigation for agriculture, overpopulation, and challenges linked to climate change.

Thank you for your support and interest in our Online Learning Program.

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