St. Paul’s University College is pleased to announce that fourteen International Development (INDEV) students who are not eligible to receive funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), will each receive $1,500 through the St. Paul’s Student Awards Fund.
The Faculty of Environment, in partnership with St. Paul's, offers the first-year entry undergraduate degree program in International Development. In their 4B term INDEV students begin eight-month field placements in one of seven developing countries – Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, Peru and Vietnam. The first INDEV cohort completed their placements and graduated in June 2012.
St. Paul’s is providing the awards to 4th year INDEV students leaving this September to complete eight month field placements in Botswana, Burkina Faso, and Nepal. The $1,500 award matches the amount that seventeen other students heading to CIDA eligible countries – Malawi, Ghana, Vietnam and Peru – will receive through CIDA’s Students for Development grant.
The eight-month, for-credit field placement in a developing country arranged through the World University Service of Canada is a critical and required experiential learning component of the Bachelor of Environmental Studies in International Development program.
St. Paul’s also supports the INDEV program by awarding a Fellowship to each admitted student that includes a term in residence and partial meal plan tenable in their 4A term prior to the 4B and 4C field work terms. The fellowship is valued at $3,000.