Dear Members and Friends of the Trust:
The cost of education and especially higher education is increasing. While greater assistance is being provided by the government for the needy at all its educational institutions, for a variety of reason there are still many among the Indian community who require fi nancial assistance. A signifi cant number of needy students come from low income single parent families and families that have to cope with costs for medical care and disabilities. Many among them face hardship coping with day to day food and transport costs and incidental costs associated with the classroom. Your Trust is doing what it can to assist as many as possible to cope with this need.

As a part of our on-going effort to address the needs of fi nancially disadvantaged students, we have introduced a new bursary scheme aimed at helping students in ITE, JC, Polytechnic and the Universities. This new focus was the outcome of a cooperative arrangement with SINDA, under which SIET will focus on fi nancial assistance for post secondary and tertiary levels while SINDA will focus on assistance for Primary and Secondary school students.