TILT has maintained a scholarship program for impoverished secondary students and a few vocational/technical students. There are now about 50 students in this program, which is slowly winding down as students graduate.

Due to the demands on CCDI volunteers’ time and the obstacles to communication due to COVID-19 from 2020–2023, we have lacked information about these scholarships. Recently, however, we received a report on twenty young people who received scholarships to learn welding, tailoring, construction trades, cosmetology, and auto mechanics. All are gainfully employed, only one at a low-wage job. Eighteen of the twenty started businesses, earned enough money to pay their own secondary school tuition and fees, and are pursuing diplomas. The remaining one, an auto mechanic, earns a relatively high wage as a driver/mechanic for a local institution.