SHE-CAN Scholar Program 2026-2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 1, 2026 (Cambodia & Guatemala) / November 1, 2026 (Liberia)

Applications are invited for the SHE-CAN Scholar Program 2026-2027. SHE-CAN seeks gifted younger girls leaders from Cambodia, Liberia, and Guatemala who’ve few alternatives however unbelievable potential and fervour for change.

As a SHE-CAN scholar, you’ll be supported in successful a full-experience scholarship to a high U.S. faculty. Through entry to a world-class faculty schooling, mentorship, and management coaching within the U.S., they’ll give you the instruments and help wanted to return and make change in your home nation.

Funding

SHE-CAN goals to help low-earnings younger girls who wouldn’t in any other case have the OPPORTUNITY to study within the U.S. and get the instruments wanted to return home and step into management roles of their international locations. Funding for SHE-CAN students is offered by:

• College-Funded Scholarship: Every scholar applies for and is awarded a full-experience scholarship from a U.S. faculty, which pays for the price of tuition, a spot to stay, and meals whereas at school.
• SHE-CAN: The group funds check preparation lessons and prices not coated by your scholarship that your loved ones can’t afford, together with passport and visa charges, flight (one to U.S. and one home), textbooks, medical health insurance, and many others.
• Scholar & Family: Scholars fund journey to and from check preparation lessons in your nation’s capital metropolis. When you arrive within the U.S., you might be anticipated to work on campus to fund your private bills (toothpaste, shampoo, and many others.). While SHE-CAN funds your medical health insurance, the group is unable to fund medical bills exterior of what the insurance coverage covers, together with dental and imaginative and prescient bills.

Eligibility

• Open to a girl between the ages of 17-20
• Passionate about enhancing your nation
• High faculty graduate or graduating highschool by June 2027
• Access to capital metropolis if chosen for an interview (Note: Guatemala location relies on candidates)
• From a low-earnings family
• Interested in pursuing an undergraduate diploma at a U.S. faculty or college (SHE-CAN doesn’t work with college students in search of graduate levels)
• Have lower than 1 yr of college or different put up-secondary credit
• Already a frontrunner in your faculty or neighborhood
• A powerful English speaker: Your skill to talk and write in English is essential as a result of all U.S. universities require a excessive rating on an official language examination, such because the TOEFL, IELTS or Duolingo. Therefore, in case your English shouldn’t be sturdy, they advocate that you just spend a yr finding out and apply subsequent yr
• Academically sturdy: Consistently ranked excessive in your class with sturdy grades and a robust rating on National Exam or WAEC/WASSCE
• Dedicated to this program: Able to dedicate your days in January – June to SHE-CAN’s pre-faculty program (accepted students should not work full-time throughout this era)
• Able to entry a robust web connection and laptop day by day to check emails

Application

You will want the next to apply:

• High faculty transcripts for grades 10, 11, and 12
• National examination rating report or WAEC rating report
• English translations of transcripts or examination scores if obligatory (will be self-translated)
• Estimate of household’s month-to-month earnings
• Score reviews for the SAT, ACT, IELTS, TOEFL if in case you have taken them
• No application payment – free to apply!

Apply by Country

For extra data, go to SHE-CAN Scholar Program.