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Programs FQ has a single focus: to provide grants and scholarships to low income Dominicans for education and training in the DR.
This education and training assists grantees to obtain new skills and enhanced opportunities for paying jobs and financial betterment, hopefully helping to improve their lives and those of their families.
What Kind of Education and Training Has FQ Supported? From 1987 through the present, FQ has donated to individuals and groups in the DR for various kinds of training and education, including: nursing
| computer skills | | beautician school | worm composting | | tractor driving | pesticide safety | | accounting | beekeeping | | fashion design | dance | | ecology | music | | electrical vocational school | motorcycle mechanics | | English as a Second Language | electronic appliance repair | | child psychology | construction and cement skills | | driver training | graphic arts | | chicken raising | diesel engine repair | | fruit tree grafting | pharmacy training | | sustainable agriculture | industrial mechanics | | bamboo uses training | executive secretary training | | sewing | farm veterinary apprenticeship | | goat raising | drafting school |
FQ's support may also include transportation and tuition for students in high school and community college, text book purchases, and educational supplies.
Only a few of FQ's scholarships support traditional four-year university education. To support this program, FQ: - Provides information about FQ grant and scholarship opportunities, and the application and sponsorship process, to:
- Each new group of DR PCV Trainees;
- All PCV's at each of their in-country meetings; and
- DR Peace Corps staff.
FQ channels this information via Peace Corps and other informal networks at work within the Dominican community in the DR and in the U.S.A.
- Processes/approves/disapproves grant and scholarship applications and disburses funds in a timely manner
- Compiles information on scholarship outcomes
- Prepares and distributes a newsletter several times a year for FQ members/donors and potential grant and scholarship sponsors
- Raises funds via general and special appeals, and keeps a careful accounting of all organizational income and expenses
- Holds regular Board meetings and special events supportive of FQ’s goals, objectives, and interests
- Provides and maintains online venues for the organization where information on FQ, news about grantees and scholarship recipients, etc. is continually kept up-to-date
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