FAQs

All PEER Teens Scholars are chosen by Local Committees made up of volunteers in the community who know the PEER Teens well. They identify the promising servant leaders who come from families with financial need to qualify for the scholarship. These Local Committee members also stay in touch with the Scholars and encourage them during the years of study. They also work with PEER Servants to identify ways to enhance the PEER Teens Scholars program. 

The funds you donate are used for tuition, living expenses while at school, a laptop, and data access.  Donations are sent from PEER Servants to the PEER Teens Scholar affiliate program and then Local Committee members oversee the disbursement of scholarship funds. 

All of it – 100%. When you give to PEER Teens Scholars, PEER Servants directs 100% of your gift to the PEER Teens Scholars program. How can we do this? We are a primarily volunteer organization, and so we operate with relatively low overhead costs. A portion of the funds given to PEER Servants “Where Most Needed” go to cover these low overhead costs.

PEER Servants is a non-profit organization started in 1991 originally known as Christian Technical Support.  PEER Servants works with 10 global partners in multiple areas including microfinance, healthcare, and education.  PEER Teens is the Youth Empowerment program started by PEER Servants in 2014.  Then, in 2017, PEER Teens Scholars scholarship program was piloted by two of the PEER Teens programs in Uganda and Zambia.  All students nominated for the scholarship must first show servant leadership in PEER Teens.