Fellowships & Financial Assistance

While VIA does everything it can to keep program fees low, we also offer three types of additional financial assistance to qualifying applicants:

• General financial assistance provides a limited fee reduction to applicants for all VIA programs in Asia and is awarded based on need
• CJ Huang Fellowship is designed specifically for Stanford graduates interested in teaching and service work in China
• Community Fellowship is offered to applicants for the long-term Vietnam program who have a demonstrated commitment to Vietnam or the Vietnamese-American community.

General Financial Assistance for VIA Summer Participants and 1 & 2 Year Volunteers

All program participants are welcome to apply for financial assistance. Contact the office for information regarding need-based financial assistance from VIA and ideas about personal fund raising and outside funding. Over 40% of our volunteers receive partial fee reduction from VIA and many raise enough outside funds to cover the remainder of their fees. The application for financial assistance can be downloaded from our How to Apply page.

VIA attempts to keep participation costs as low as possible for all volunteers. We raise funds to cover almost 90% of what it costs to support a long-term volunteer overseas. This money is raised through alumni donations and private foundation grants. Visit our Support VIA page for more information on how VIA is funded.