Funds perpetual of education

A few years ago, the Église of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days launched the Perpetual Fonds of Education , program which aims at helping the young people to carry out studies and to conclude a community project.

History

It is into 2001 that the current president of the Church, Gordon B. Hinckley, announced the introduction of this funds, after having noted that many young people and young women, of return in their country after their mission full-time, did not find employment correctly remunerated, fault of having found a necessary financing to start a school course or a professional training.

Inspired of the Funds Perpetual of Immigration

This program is inspired, for its operation and by its spirit, of that of the Funds Perpetual of Immigration, system of loan atvery low rate which made it possible to the converts to go in Utah in the middle of the XIXe century. Many a Mormon Pionniers, come from British Isles and rest of Europe, thus secured a loan which they refunded once they were established and prosperous. One estimates at 30.000 the number of people who benefitted from this system of loans. When it proved that the needs were provided, the program was stopped.

Statistics

As of 2002,5000 young people profited from this loan and their number reached to 18000 in 2005. At the beginning of 2007, it concerned 25.000 young people. Concerning initially the countries of South America (from where is resulting a high number missionaries), the funds relates to 27 different countries today.

Operation

The presidents of pile (authority above the bishop) and the bishops determine initially which people have more the need for this help; this one is then sent not to the young people themselves but to the training center on which they depend. The students on the spot follow their formation in their country of origin and their progress is evaluated by the local directors of the Institut.

Upstream, of the general Authorities supervise the program which uses the already existing structures of the Church: local leaders of the priesthood, the Department of Education of the Church and services of assistance to employment. As said it Gordon B. Hinckley, president of the Church, “this program does not cost anything” on the administrative level.

As for the Funds, they are the members of the Church themselves which feed it by their gifts. Their generosity allows the most stripped to reach autonomy with dignity, to leave the infernal cycle of poverty and to plan to found a hearth and to help their parents.

According to the leaders of the Church, the divine inspiration, the faith, the hope and the spirit of division allowed and continue to allow the good performance of this program.

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