Mary Ware Scholarship Accepting Applications

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The Mary Ware Scholarship is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 Freshman year. The Mary Ware Scholarship was formed in memory of the late Mary Ware because of her love of children in need. The Scholarship provides financial grants for qualified recipients to attend a range of Georgia institutions for higher learning including traditional colleges and universities and trade schools. These grants will go to deserving Georgia High School graduates who meet specific criteria as directed by the Mary Ware Scholarship Fund with a focus on children who are "at risk", do not qualify for other grant options and can demonstrate strong financial need.

Each year, thousands of children are taken from their homes to keep them safe and placed with relatives and friends in the hope they can avoid being placed in foster care. The Foster Care Support Foundation opens its doors to include them in their clothing program but many other areas of support for these children remain unmet.

Due to not living in the system, these youth are unable to take advantage of the many programs provided by Georgia's growing Independent Living program that provides college tuition to foster care youth and other resources. These teens may have had little or no mentoring resources that would enable them to reach the grade level to maintain the Hope Scholarship requirement and so may fall just short of the 3.0 point of acceptability. Without the opportunities benefiting a chance at continuing education, these children may age out into adulthood, alone with no family support or resource programs available. These children are not able to be included in the free foster care tuitions given to children in the system that age out.

The Mary Ware Scholarship seeks to reach into the hidden cracks that often exist in the reunification path to extended family and offer an promising measure of support for these children.

Foster Care Support Foundation supports children from birth through college graduation through a variety of outlets. From giving high quality free clothing, toys and infant-safe necessities to scholarships, free seminars to foster parents, and the nationally recognized Prom-a-Palooza. Foster Care Support Foundation works to serve children and families across the state of Georgia.

Foster Care Support Foundation does not receive or seek state or federal funding. They receive their financial and volunteer assistance from businesses, grants, private citizens, civic and faith-based organizations that care about children in crisis and have the interest to invest in their future.

To find out more about The Mary Ware Scholarship, the Foster Care Support Foundation, and how you can help by donating funds, volunteering, donating goods or fostering, visit www.fostercares.org

Although the application form states the deadline as March 15th, we've extended the deadline to April 1st to apply for the Mary Ware Sholarship. Click here to view the application and eligibility requirements or check out our website and click on the scholarship tab