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Freeman-EAS: Freeman Emergency Assistance for Students
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In January 2005, IIE launched an emergency assistance program to help US campuses respond to the financial needs of students from Southeast Asia whose sources of support back home were affected by the December 2004 earthquake/tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Freeman-EAS: Freeman Emergency Assistance for Students from Southeast Asia will provide educational allowances of up to $5,000 to undergraduates from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand at accredited US institutions who are facing serious financial difficulties due to the tragedy in their region. US campuses are invited to nominate up to four (4) individuals for whom help is especially needed.
This program is utilizing returned and unexpended loan funds from the ASIA-HELP (Asian Students in America-Higher Education Loan Program) program that IIE established with Freeman Foundation support to assist students from these same countries (and from Korea) who were affected by the Asian financial crisis in 1997.
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