Blind Citizens Australia (BCA) is strongly committed to ensuring that people who are blind or vision impaired have opportunities to develop skills that will enable them to contribute to the social, economic and cultural life of Australian communities. Applications for the first round of five BCA scholarships of up to $5,000 each are now open till 30 June 2021, and can be submitted here.
Funded by the Commonwealth’s Information, Linkages and Capacity-building program and the Jeffrey Blyth Foundation, BCA is offering a total of 15 scholarships of up to $5,000 for educational expenses through Semester 2 in 2021 and Semesters 1 and 2 in 2022. Each semester will have a separate application and awarding process, and scholarship recipients will be funded for one semester only.
The BCA scholarships program has two key objectives:
Scholarship recipients will receive:
You can review the application requirements via the BCA website. For more information, please contact Miriam Fathalla at Miriam.Fathalla@bca.org.au or by calling 1800 033 660.