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Welcome to the International Fellowships Program!The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) awards graduate fellowships to candidates who have demonstrated social commitment, leadership and academic achievement. The IFP reaches out to a new generation of potential leaders from groups and communities that have traditionally lacked access to higher education and know at first hand the problems facing their countries and communities. Worldwide, IFP is being implemented in 22 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as Russia. |
Cohort 2006
Augusto spent his early years among the Tiruray tribe, where his mother was one of the first public elementary school teachers. His mother’s stories about this “indigenous” group may have influenced his interest in the social sciences.