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Scholarships for 

Intercountry Adoptees

Scholarships are often a key resource for adoptees navigating their identity because they offer crucial support during a formative period of self-discovery and growth. 

For many adoptees, the journey to understanding their identity involves reconciling complex feelings about their background, culture, and personal history. Scholarships can provide the tools and opportunities necessary for greater academic achievement, ensuring access to mental health resources and counseling, and helping adoptees address and process their unique experiences and emotional challenges. 

Together, these scholarships empower adoptees to explore and affirm their identity with greater confidence and resilience, ultimately supporting their overall well-being and personal development.

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Scholarship Opportunities for Intercountry Adoptees

  • Adoptee Excellence Scholarship by Also Known As Inc.

    Also-Known-As Adoptee Excellence Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current undergraduate international adoptees who demonstrate the attributes of leadership, drive, integrity, and civic engagement. We seek candidates who have used their adoption story and formative youth experiences to lead, serve, and pursue a life of purpose and significance, both individually and for their communities.

  • Walter Jonathan Poirier Endowment Scholarship by ASIA Families

    ASIA Families is honored to partner with Chris Poirier, a Korea Bridge Tour participant and Camp Rice volunteer, to establish an annual college scholarship for adoptees in memory of Chris’s brother, Walter Jonathan Poirier. This scholarship is open to adoptees who are currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs in the United States.

  • Language Scholarship by Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link (GOA’L)

    G.O.A.’L. offers partial scholarships for Korean adoptees who are interested in studying Korean at some of Seoul’s best-known Korean language programs. The programs offers applicants the chance to study Korean in-depth while living in an immersive environment.

  • Adoptee Scholarship Contest by Holt International

    Adoptees can enter for the opportunity to be awarded $700-$1,000 toward an educational pursuit via the Adoptee Scholarship Contest by Holt International.

  • Gift of Identity Scholarship by TIES

    The Ties Program helps adoptees explore identity and heritage while Gift of Identity provides financial opportunities for adoptees to afford such a special, life-changing trip.

  • More Scholarship Opportunities Coming Soon!

 

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