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The Developing Nations Scholarship Fund is transforming the lives of
young people in developing countries around the world who will have an
advantage as they enter the labor market: they will have an
education and a degree in their own country that will help them with
gainful employment. LifeNets has served students in the following
countries: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, Chile,
Brazil, Ukraine, Philippines, Zambia, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Malawi. LifeNets has providing student scholarships since
2001.
UPDATED April 29, 2012
See more about Gabriella
Here's a scholarship recipient that we are
particularly pleased with. Gabriella was part of our Street
Children program in Vinogradov. Her entire future has changed
as a result of her ambition and receiving a LifeNets scholarship
grant. On April 25, 2012, she sent us several photos of her
studying to become a dental technician and one who is able to make
dental prosthetics, as they call them.
She writes:
Dear Victor and Beverly. How is your
life? All is going well with my studies. In a month we are starting
our practicum. We have a lot to do. Right now we creating
upper and bottom teeth and put them on stands. I really enjoy doing
this. Here are a few photos of our lab. We want to hear from
you....Greetings from all of us.
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Gabriella on right |
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Gabriella on right |
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Original: Доброго дня Віктор та
Беверлі, як ваше життя? В мене з учобою все добре,через місяць будемо
мати виробничу практику,ми скоріше закінчуемо навчання маемо багато
роботи.Зараз ми на знімному протезуванні робимо протези на беззубі
щелепи верхньоі та нижньоі,також потрібно зробити постановку зубів з
зеркалом.В цілому маемо роботи багато.мені подобаеться знімне
протезування. Зараз скину декілька фотографій ношоі аудиторіі...
Чекаю листа, від нас привіт...
UPDATED March 24, 2012
 A
couple of days ago I went to school to check the grade for my last
course which I studied - EDTE475 Teaching Practice. I am again over
the moon to report to you that I scored a straight "A" (distinction)
in this course. This has pushed my Grade Point Aggregate (GPA) up to
3. 079 and this means I will graduate with a Cum Laude (Credit).
When the graduation date is set you will be notified accordingly. My
success as a LifeNets scholarship beneficially is LifeNets
achievement.
Your untiring financial and spiritual support is highly appreciated.
Warm regards,
Gift Tennyson Chikwera
March 22, 2012
UPDATED March 3, 2012
We would like to feature a few of our other current LifeNets
Developing Nations Scholarship Fund students -- from divergent
places such as Brazil, Armenia and Malawi. Here's a glimpse...
Brazil
Giovane
Macedo and Laura Macedo from Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil are very
grateful for the LifeNets scholarship that they are receiving to help them in
their graduate studies.
 They have had
many job trials and lost many excellent employment opportunities due to their
spiritual convictions before they could establish themselves financially and
they had a very difficult time with finances since.
Due to the
scholarship support from Lifenets, they are now able to further their
qualifications in the hope of better employment opportunities in Brazil in the
future.
Laura is
currently pursuing a video-conference based degree
in
pedagogy through a Brazilian University. Likewise
Giovane is enrolled in a degree on Systems
Development and Technology through the University of Paraná. They are both doing
well in their studies and Giovane is ahead of schedule in his exercises and
assignments.
Giovane also
helps in translation work of the Portuguese booklets for the United Church of
God and they served the
church in Maloca de Moscow (in the Northern Brazil) this past fall.
We received this letter of thanks from the Giovane's:
Beloved friends, Mr and Mrs
Kubik,
My wife and I would like to
thank you immensely for this precious and blessed assistance to complete our
studies.
We will always be grateful to
you. We also hope that our Celestial Father may continue to provide you health,
strength and determination to continue help people and believing Christians.
Your brethren in the faith…
Giovane and Laura Macedo
January 2012
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Steve Kumalonje |
Malawi
Hello, this is Steve Kumalonje - one of
the LifeNets scholarship beneficiaries. I graduated from the
University of Malawi with a Credit Diploma in Journalism whose
duration of study is 2years. This was on Friday, 2nd March 2012.
Thanks be to you though for the timely material support you sent me
in my time of need and remembering the request of mine with regard
to a laptop and a digital camera - you did send them at the right
time. I also thank LifeNets for their enviable support throughout my
two years of study at the University of Malawi...
Armenia
Ani
Poghossyan is studying for a degree in modern languages at the university in the
capital city of Yerevan. Her scholarship is administered through our friends in
Germany. She writes the following:
Dear Mr. Kieffer,
I would like to thank you, Mr. Kubik and
everyone else for supporting my studies at university
financially.
I passed all my exams and currently enjoy the
summer vacation till Sept. 1st. I
During my vacation I work on my German and read the German "Good
News" as well as the magazine "Intern."
I really like my studies. I am fascinated by
the German language, literature and culture and also by the English
language.
My university is the best university of
Armenia.
Unfortunately there are many professors that
don't walk in God's ways. They try to make the exams really
difficult.
The German poet Goethe once said:
"Grey are all theories, only the tree of life
is green.
I would say grey are all theories (which are
not based on the bible), only the tree of the true faith is green.
I wish all of you God's abundant blessings,
warm regards,
Ani Poghossyan
August 2011
UPDATED March 7, 2011
As part of our
Developing Nations
Scholarship Program, LifeNets decided to help some of its students with laptop
computers support. We have helped in this in some of the countries we provide
scholarships. Some courses of study are quite computer intensive and
to have access to crowded computer labs often with outdated computers was not
helping their studies. A laptop computer accelerated their education. We
always provide a backpack so that the student can keep the computers close by.
In some cases we have also provided a bicycle to help the students with
transportation to school.
Some of our students tell us about how a laptop helped.
Here are a few stories from Malawi
UPDATED March 7, 2011
A Happy Conclusion to a
LifeNets Scholarship Experience
From our
student, Cephas Chapamba who describes his graduation and future
Hello!
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Graduate Cephas Chapamba with
his wife Patrica |
The
graduation was held at Malawi Adventist university, Lakeview campus, a constituent college of Malawi
Adventist University which is affiliated with Ballaton University of East
Africa and its headquarters in Kenya. The graduation took place on
Sunday 26 September 2010. The graduation saw me getting out of the
college corridors with a Diploma in Clinical Medicine. This will benefit
me a lot in the sense that my salary with the government will rise, my
responsibility at work will rise, my chance of expanding my business has
increased to almost 100%,above all the community I am saving will stop
travelling long distances in search of medical services since they have
one right in their community. Is this not wonderful? There are a lot of
benefits that could even feel this whole page, but the issue is that the
LifeNets has managed to bring a Clinical officer to the Malawi nation
and to UCG. My study period is 18 months intensive class work and 12 months
work experience which will end in June 2011. All this with funding from
LifeNets. Oh what a nice organization!
If you see
properly you will see that
almost four faces are dominating the pictures the one in black suit is me (Cephas)
and a lady with a purple suit and a white hat is my wife Patricia she
accompanied me to the ceremony since we are one body. The other man in
yellow shirt is my best friend now at Nkhotakota and the other lady is
his wife. (photo below).
You would be
surprised to hear that we did not know this family
until I went to school but when people see us, take us as brothers, we
visit their family and they also do the same, this means that
in addition to getting my diploma, the school has helped me add to
the
number of family friends. Others are friends and relatives who came to
witness the occasion, the notable names to you could be Gift Chikwera
and Kennedy Nyalubwe, and do you know that without your camera which was
given to Gift just 12 hours before graduation I would have a graduation
without photos?
You would also be
interested to know
that after this diploma I have opened a lot of market for the clinic I
own. I will now be able to start inpatient department, to open a
maternity wing, to do some operations like hernia repairs, Caesarean sections,
just to mention a few. The government of Malawi has offered me a job which
shows that despite being in private sector the Malawi government is
still benefiting directly from my services.
Its exciting, I could write
pages, all this is to
show my appreciation to LifeNets, God bless LifeNets!
Good day,
Cephas
UPDATED November 11, 2010
 From
Malawi: On September 20, 2010 we visited one of our scholarship
students at the Malawi Polytechnic College. His name is Madalidso Kazembe
(on the right) and the Dean of Students. Madalidso is a
very special young man from a small rural village. He grew up with no
electricity and no running water. Studying after dark is not possible. Now, he
is studying electrical engineering and doing very well. We were really
impressed by him and his desire to better himself. Bev and I brought over an
extra unallocated laptop computer and decided to give it to him. In technical
studies, ones own personal computer accelerates learning because you don’t
have to stand in line to use the computer lab at school. We met at the Dean’s
Office, Nellie Katenje who was very impressive.
Madalitso wrote to us:
"I would like to thank you so much for every effort you are conducting in order
to transform me into someone else. This means that to appreciate this, my
performance has to be as good as possible. But, to achieve this requires one to
have enough resources. This is so because as far as college students are
concerned, lack of enough materials in one subject can be a contributing factor
to poor performance is all subjects.
"I am finding problems in performing better in Computing Engineering which
involves designing engineering programs. As far as electrical engineering is
concerned having no computer is like walking without seeing where you are going.
Now my request from you si that I I may have a laptop then life will be very
easy. The laptop can assist me in the following fields:
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"Perfoming better in computer course (engineering
programming) which istgo be acovered from now up to my final yhear.
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"Can be an easy way to communicate with you the
Internet
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"Library books are not enough in the library so having
a laptop menas you can have your own library by installing books in it.
"Lastly, let me thank you very much assisting me accordingly."
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From Ukraine: This is Gabriella. I want to
let let you know that I really enjoy studying at the Monada College in Khust. My
studies are very interesting. I thank you very much for providing me with
the means to this eduaction.
Love,
Gabriella
Below are photos of Gabriella and her classroom in Khust, Ukraine:
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Gabriella's classroom |
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I'm Rhodrick
Haiton Thungula,
28years old. I
live in
Lilongwe,
Malawi. I have
been supported
by LifeNets
since I started
my Career in the
construction
industry. I
started
schooling at
Lilongwe
Technical
College in 2007
where I've been
studying
Construction,of
the City and
Gilds of London.
My work duties
includes
Designing and
Drawing
Construction
working
drawings,
supervising
construction
works,
calculating
building
quantities
estimate. I use
different
computer
packages for
drawing and
calculating
estimates. 
All through my
education, I've
been studying on
campus as well
as on sites as
part of my
career
attachment and
exposure.
LifeNets has
helped me cope
up with life
demands and
standards,since
I can now get a
job easily and
am recognized in
the world of
construction. I
thank LifeNets
and all those
who are behind
it for making it
possible through
this
organisation,
not forgetting
those who are
coordinating
this program
right here in
Malawi
especially right
here in
Lilongwe. At the
moment a'm able
to support my
younger brothers
who are still
schooling and
needs my support
and my mother at
home. I thank God and
am not ashamed
to say my future
is brighter than
ever before and
my progression
route is on my
career is open.
I'm the kind of
person who
desires to go
further with
studies and this
has given me a
good platform.
I'm holding an
advanced
technician
diploma in
construction of
the city and
gilds of London
Institute.
Lastly I thank
all LifeNets
stakeholders for
making it real,
by the grace of
God. Rhodrick Haiton
Thungula
UPDATED
October 29, 2010
We are happy to feature photos of our Developing Nations
Scholarship students. This is Edita Danko who was part of our Vinogrdov
Street Children Program since 2001. We are happy to see her development
and see her aspiration for a higher education and a brighter future.
UPDATED
October 27, 2010
Parents Samuel and Rodia Siopan writes about LifeNets
scholarships granted to his two sons Timothy James and Andrei who live and study
in the Philippines. The parents currently live in New Zealand:
"I am so pleased to share some good news about our sons school's development in
their school and church activities. First, we really had a good
 bonding
time with our family in the Iloilo Feast site in the Visayas area. We were so
blessed, that my wife and I were able to attend in the Philippines to be with
our families. Our sons didn't have a hard time in taking off from school since
it coincided with the university's sportsfest week.
Exams were scheduled this week for the final term for the
first semester. They have been doing well in their academic pursuits and
positive outlook in life. Our eldest son, Timothy James still joins the
engineering club while Andrei joins the environmental club because some school
clubs have a meeting on a Saturdays. This year's FOT were a big surprised to us,
because they were both active in joining and volunteering in the different
assignments for the Feast success. TJ was doing the sound system every
services, joined the Family Night dance presentations and encouraging the youths
to participate in the festival activities. Andrei was active in the festival
choir and the Family Night's comical skit, dance and singing rendition. As
parents, we can't helped but be amazed with their talents and participation.
LifeNets has done a good job in helping our youths future thru education and the
church leadership in helping them grow physically, mentally and spiritually.
Thank you so much Sir for helping us in their education and we'll be praying for
continued blessings for LifeNets.
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