How To Apply For The Color My World Scholarships

Applying couldn’t be easier. Follow the 4 simple steps below to be in with the chance of joining us in Nicaragua this summer.

After creating the video application, complete the form below and let us know a bit more about yourself.

Want some hints on how to create a great video, check out one of our scholarship winners from 2016.

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Over the next month, as you celebrate Christmas, and look forward to the New Year, find ways to serve others around you.

Share the joy of Christmas

Often it is the smallest of gestures that makes the biggest impact. The simplicity of sharing messages of love and appreciation can lift others around us.

With the Christmas season becoming more and more commercial each year, it is easy to lose the real reason for the celebration. All too often family time becomes diluted from the stresses of buying the correct gifts. While gifts may fade away and be forgotten over the preceding weeks and months, relationships and friendships never do.

This Christmas season, place value on the things that matter most. Make a commitment to share the joy of Christmas with everyone that you meet, by telling your loved ones what they mean to you.

Find small acts of service

Throughout all our time volunteering, one of the biggest things we have learned at Color My World, is how much your love for others increases after you serve them. Through service, you place yourself in their shoes, and begin to understand their life.

Every day we are all confronted with opportunities to serve. Whether by opening a door for someone, or shovelling snow off a neighbour’s driveway. You can make someone else’s day better through service. As you give of yourself, your appreciation for the season will increase.

Make this Christmas one that you will never forget by serving others.

Share with those less fortunate than yourself

Disaster and misfortune can hit any of us at any time. These circumstances can be momentary, or last a lifetime. This Christmas season give of your excess to provide an unforgettable Christmas to those around you.

With charitable organisations throughout the world, working with those less fortunate than ourselves, has never been easier. Whether in time or resources, what you can provide will change a life this Christmas. The acts do not need to be big. Giving an hour of your time at a soup kitchen will provide a meal for the hungry, donating money to a charity will provide a gift to a child.

Make this Christmas season the best one yet, by giving of yourself.

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Over the past 5 years, Color My World volunteers have become very close with several of the teenagers in Jiquilillo, Nicaragua. We admire the thirst they have for knowledge, and the work ethic that they have.

Supporting Learning In Central America

The decision was made in the 2016 season in Nicaragua to start sponsoring one of these teenagers, giving him the opportunity to attend secondary school. While in Nicaragua we paid the tuition costs for the year, and helped prepare him for attending school. The cost of school does not just stop at paying for tuition though. Alvaro has to catch a 2 hour bus to get to school each morning, and have money to buy lunch while at school each day.

What difference will you make by giving $20? choosing to donate $20 will support Alvaro for 2 weeks, providing him with a way to get to school each day. The impact of the $20 does not end after the 2 weeks. The donation will have a lasting impact, as it enables Alvaro to fulfil his thirst for knowledge, making him more employable in the future. a $20 donation will provide a future for Alvero.

While the donations made are currently helping one teenager in Jiquilillo, with your support, we hope to continue supporting teenagers in the future, and help them fulfil their potential through gaining an education.

Providing a Home For Future Generations

Many of the communities that we work in have families that are either homeless, or live in unsustainable accommodation. For the last 2 years, Color My World has sponsored the building of brick homes for these families. The purpose of the homes are to provide sustainable housing for families that will last generations.

One home costs $5,000. This is another example of where the donations from Color My World go. The result of funding a home changes a families life. While in Nicaragua, we spoke with a mother who had just received a home, and with tears in her eyes, she shared with us her plans to make her own juice, and sell it. This dream of hers was only made possible however through receiving the home where she could get electricity. This business will provide an income and a future for the family.

Any donation, no matter the size can change lives.

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