The Mary Lynn Higgins Youth Fund Charter Sponsor

Travel Scholarships

Every year in Ontario, over 300,000 students hit the road with classmates on their annual school trip. In addition, over 4,500 students are left behind to only imagine what their year-end trip might have been like.

Mary Lynn Higgins was an owner and director in the educational tour business with School Voyageurs. She believed that travel is an extension of the classroom. She dedicted her life to planning memorable yet highly educational tours for schools travelling all over the world. Accompanying many of the group tours she planned, Mary Lynn gained insight into the importance of social interaction, learning, and the overall feeling of inclusion that these adventures represented. Whether students travel to their Nation's Capital in Ottawa or to the Masai Mara in Kenya, the experience contributes to the students' knowledge and personal growth.

The Mary Lynn Higgins Youth Fund provides travel scholarships to students at the elementary and high school level. These scholarships are awarded to students in good standing who would otherwise not be able to travel with their class due to financial restrictions. Students are nominated by one of the faculty and the nomination is endorsed by the Principal.

The MLH Youth Fund has no administration costs!

The MLH Youth Fund has received tremendous encouragement from various boards of education and is viewed as a vital support to "out-of-the-classroom" education. Scholarships were awarded to 65 students in the 2006-2007 school year.

It is our goal to award scholarships to 100 Canadian students in the 2007-2008 school year. We need your help to achieve that goal. Please note that 100% of all donations go to the students. The Mary Lynn Higgins Youth Fund has no administration costs!