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Freeman-EAS: Hurricane Katrina
Emergency Assistance for Students from East and Southeast Asia |
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In January 2005, IIE launched Freeman-EAS: Freeman Emergency Assistance for Students from Southeast Asia, an emergency assistance program to help U.S. 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 provides educational allowances to undergraduates from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand at regionally accredited U.S. institutions who are facing serious financial difficulties due to the tragedy in their region.
In September 2005, with support from the Freeman Foundation, IIE expanded the Freeman-EAS program to assist East and Southeast Asian students in the U.S. who were directly affected by Hurricane Katrina. Freeman-EAS: Hurricane Katrina provides emergency educational allowances to graduate and undergraduate students who have been displaced, forced to transfer to another school or otherwise affected by the hurricane and who need funds to replace items lost in the hurricane such as books, educational equipment and necessity items or with relocation expenses to a new campus.
Freeman-EAS and Freeman-EAS: Hurricane Katrina are 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 in the U.S from Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand who were affected by the Asian financial crisis in 1997.
The Freeman Foundation is a U.S. private philanthropic organization that aims to improve understanding and to strengthen ties between the United States and the countries of the Pacific Rim.
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