Overview
Women residing in Colombia who are primary financial providers for themselves and their dependents can apply for Soroptimist's Live Your Dream Awards to support undergraduate or vocational/skills education.
Complete scholarship details
The official program lists three award levels. Eligible recipients may receive cash awards from local and regional levels and can potentially receive up to USD 16,000 across the program to help with education-related costs such as tuition, books, transportation or childcare.
Eligibility requirements
Applicants must be women who provide the primary financial support for themselves and their dependents, have financial need, be enrolled in or accepted to a vocational/skills training or undergraduate program, reside in an eligible Soroptimist International of the Americas member country including Colombia, have not previously received the award, not already hold or currently pursue a graduate degree, and not be a Soroptimist member/employee or immediate family of one.
Tips for this scholarship
Practical Job and Scholarship guidance. These tips do not replace official rules or create new eligibility requirements.
- Check eligibility, funding coverage, study/project level and every required document before investing time in the application.
- Prepare transcripts, references, language tests, proposal/motivation statement and proof documents early.
- Separate the scholarship deadline from any university/program admission deadline; they may be different.
- Treat “fully funded” as a source fact only when the official provider explicitly confirms the covered costs.
Verification notes
Discovered via Scholarships360 and resolved to Soroptimist's official current application and help pages. The official eligibility page explicitly includes Colombia and says applications are accepted August 1–November 15; the help page says 11:59 p.m. but application times use the applicant's configured local timezone, so deadline_date is used instead of inventing UTC.
Job and Scholarship is the discovery and verification layer. Confirm eligibility, dates, salary/funding and application instructions on the original source before submitting anything.
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