{"id":1905,"date":"2017-05-24T04:38:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T04:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2017-05-24T04:38:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T04:38:51","slug":"are-you-of-south-asian-descent-1000-scholarship-for-excellence-in-academics-community-involvement-or-athletics-deadline-wednesday-june-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/2017\/05\/24\/are-you-of-south-asian-descent-1000-scholarship-for-excellence-in-academics-community-involvement-or-athletics-deadline-wednesday-june-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you of South Asian descent? $1000 scholarship for excellence in academics, community involvement or athletics. Deadline Wednesday, June 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Asian Family Association (SAFA) is proud to offer scholarships in the amount of $1000 each in the following categories:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Academic Excellence<\/p>\n<p>(2) Excellence in Community Involvement\/Fine Arts<\/p>\n<p>(3) Excellence in Athletics<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Mission Statement: The South Asian Family Association (SAFA) is a non-profit organization, created in 2000 by a group of concerned South Asian men and women who wanted to promote cultural harmony. Our mandate is to seek solutions to family based problems plaguing the South Asian community, to promote multiculturalism and to seek and raise cultural awareness, understanding and harmony.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Eligibility Criteria In order to be eligible for a scholarship, a student must:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Be a student of South Asian descent\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident within the meaning of the Immigration Act\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Be enrolling in his\/her first year of full-time studies at a post-secondary institution in Canada or abroad\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Be completing\/have completed Grade 12 in a British Columbian high school Note: Relatives and close associates of any active\/past member of SAFA are ineligible to apply\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/safa-scholarship\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications must be received by Wednesday, June 14th, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Asian Family Association (SAFA) is proud to offer scholarships in the amount of $1000 each in the following categories: (1) Academic Excellence (2) Excellence in Community Involvement\/Fine Arts (3) Excellence in Athletics Mission Statement: The South Asian Family &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/2017\/05\/24\/are-you-of-south-asian-descent-1000-scholarship-for-excellence-in-academics-community-involvement-or-athletics-deadline-wednesday-june-14th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}