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file:///C:/0page/destiny/destinyhome.htm Criteria for the Award of Scholarship

Less privileged child: a child who is economically and socially disadvantaged and deprived of a decent standard of living, adequate education, and economic security through poverty & discrimination.

A vulnerable child: a child who, because of circumstances of birth or immediate environment, is prone to abuse or deprivation of basic needs, care and protection and thus disadvantaged relative to his/her peers.

Orphan: an orphan is a child under age 18 years who has lost one or both parents.

Less Privileged/Orphans & Vulnerable Children will be defined as any of the under listed:

	street children
	child labourers
	children with special needs
	children in remote areas from indigenous minorities
	children under 18 years exposed to conditions that do not permit fulfilment of fundamental rights for their harmonious development
	children living in households headed by children
	children living in orphanages
	children with disabilities
	children who are sexually exploited and/or abused
	working children
	children affected/infected by HIV/AIDS
	infants with their mothers in prison
	children in very vulnerable households
	refugee and displaced children
	children of single mothers children who are married before the age of maturity
	children with a terminally ill parent or guardian
	children born of a teenage mother
	children living with a parent or an adult who lacks income-generating opportunities
	child abused or ill-treated by a step-parent or relatives
	a child, under the age of 15 who has lost his/her mother (or primary caregiver)

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