WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

• Any Māori student who is attending secondary school, aged 15-17 at the time of application and meets the AFS and Māori Education Trust application guidelines.

• The Māori Education Trust has total responsibility for the selection of the scholarship recipients.

Maori Education Trust has requested that all applicants apply online on their website

• AFS Diversity Scholarship
• AFS Excellence Scholarship
• AFS Global Leaders Scholarship
• AFS Pacific Scholarship
• Arthur Helm Scholarship
• Auckland Regional Scholarship
• BlueScope Limited
• C & F Mace Scholarship
• Evonik
• Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund
• Friends of AFS
• Jenesys Scholarship to Japan
• India
• Māori Education Trust
• New Zealand Post Group
• Physically Impaired
• Tenon Employees Educational Fund
• Wellington Regional Scholarship
• Partnered Scholarships

• Historically, an average of ten partial scholarships to the value of $1,500 are provided for any country offered by AFS NZ by the Māori Education Trust.

• The Māori Education Trust has been working in partnership with AFS NZ since 1989 and in this time has sponsored over 170 students to take up the challenge to live and study overseas for one year.

• For more information about the Māori Education Trust go to www.maorieducation.org.nz
  
  

• “I’ve learned a lot of new skills which I’ll be able to use throughout my life, skills like independence, self-sufficiency and perseverance. A lot of this may not have been possible if it wasn’t for the Māori Education Trust.”
  
  Adrian Mihaka (below) from Hamilton who lived in Brazil 2004-2005