Institute of Current World Affairs

Financial Support


The Institute provides full financial support for its fellows and their immediate families. Fellows are required to write and submit monthly reports, or newsletters, to the executive director. The newsletters are circulated to ICWA members, the fellows' friends, and leaders in education, business, government, and various professions.


"Full financial support" does not mean unlimited financial support. The Institute provides fellows with sufficient funding to allow them and their families to live in good health and reasonable comfort and to fulfill the purposes of the fellowship.

 

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From the Archive


High from inhaling glue fumes, Toni, 15, screams and spreads his arms in the rain in Coelhos, 1999


"Their lives play out on the sidewalks. There’s Josenildo, 16, tall, skinny, on glue and in the streets because his family refuses to tolerate his homosexuality. His buddy Murilo, also 16 but a foot smaller than Josenildo, spends nights in his grandfather’s house and his days with glue-addicted friends. His skin has the telltale ashen look of glue addiction. I have gotten to know Murilo’s younger brother, Tota, 14; Abrahao, 10; Clevsom, 10; Careca, 14; Toni, 15; Disha, 13; and the other street children of Coelhos.” [read newsletter]


—Tyrone Turner

Brazil

ICWA Fellow (1998-2000)