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This page is only for health care workers in Sierra Leone who want to apply for scholarship. It contains information about the grant, the pre-conditions and the requirements for application.
Grant specifications
The Wouter Nolet Scholarship Fund (WNSF) provides scholarships to qualified health care workers in Sierra Leone enabling them to join the specialization training of three NGO’s: CapaCare, German Doctors and Partners in Health. The scholarship does not include the previous educations such as of the School of Clinical Science in Makeni.
WNSF operates completely independent, separately from the three NGO’s. The WNSF scholarship is meant as an additional grant to the basic allowance of the NGO’s. The grant should cover the personal costs of the student, including but not limted to food, clothes, tranbsportation, computer and mobile data. The costs of school fees and accomodation are considered to be borne by the NGO’s.
The student is responsible for filling out his/her personal data in the application form, including Bank account number and BBAN number.
WNSF only does one payment round per quarter. If the payment does not arrive due to incorrectly provided Bank account numbers, the student will lack his scholarship payment for that quarter. We do not make correction payments afterwards.
The grant is split up in 2 parts:
1. entry-level for the first 6 months
2. advanced level for the remaining period (based on proven good study behavior), including the last year of internship/housemanship.
The grant will be paid out in quarterly segments, directly paid out to the the student. The payments will last for an uninterrupted period of time. If the advanced training is delayed (f.e. housemanship/internship in 3rd year starts later), the student must take care of covering the living expenses during the extra time.
The allowance may differ from student to student. Applicants are assessed by an Allocation Committee that uses strict criteria for selection. Important elements of assessment are: previous education, work experience, motivation backgrounds and competencies.
Pre-Conditions
The student, who has passed the entrance assessment of CapaCare, German Doctors and Partners in Health trainings, may apply for scholarship if he/she meets the following pre-conditions:
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Not receiving a governmental salary (non-pin-coded)
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Prepared to work after graduation in health care settings in rural areas in Sierra Leone for at least 5 years
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Prepared to work in outreach projects (to gain work experience) as part of the advanced trainings
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Bringing in some work experience in a relevant field of medical practice is an advantage.
The scholarship application process indicated on the right side of this page has a term: deadline for acceptance of an application is at the last day of the second month of each quarter. After that, the application is automaticall tranferred to the next quarter. The student will receive a confirmation email of the date that his application has been received.
A special Committee of Allocation handles the applications and decides who will receive a grant from the WNSF fund. WNSF will communicate the outcome of the decision of the Committee directly to the student. During the course of the advanced training, the student is obliged to give feedback of his/her study results to WNSF.
Agreement
The student has to sign a Terms & Conditions agreement to adhere to some strict declarations. For example, he/she declares that he/she is prepared to work in Sierra Leone for at least 3 years after graduation. Besides that, WNSF holds the student responsible for his/her study performance and reserves the right to terminate the scholarship if the results are below a certain minimum standard.
The student allows WNSF to publish his/her name and motivation on his Website, Social Media application, posters and beneficiary networks.
Application Process
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Fill out the Application Form and upload additional documents
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Read scholarship Terms & Conditions and sign for agreement
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Submit your application and await reaction from WNSF