2009 Program

The good news is that the applications are finally available on-line. This year's applications are word documents that can be downloaded and saved to your local computer. Then type your information into the document (in the alloted spaces) and email the completed application back to us. You can also download the reference forms seperately and email them to your referees to fill out - they can be emailed directly to us or sent back to you to submit with your completed application. Don't forget to get letters of reference from your academic and NGO referees. These can be scanned & emailed, faxed or posted to us via regular mail. The final signature page (Form 7) will have to be printed signed and the returned via email (scanned), fax or regular mail.

Now, for the bad news: the financial crisis has reared it's ugly head here at HSI. We spent last month crunching the budget numbers and have regretfully had to make some tough decisions. Since our funding has been drastically reduced we are forced to cut the number of participants for the 2009 program. Unfortunately after many hours re-working the budget we are left with no other alternative: this year we must reduce the number of participants to 10 non-US and 5 US students. Hopefully, after the dust settles and this economic downturn is reversed, in 2010 we will be able to bring our numbers back up to the original 20 non-US and 10 American participants.

As always please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.