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LDS scholarship program aids Third World members
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President Hinckley's choice of the term Perpetual Education Fund was a tie to the church's past. In the mid-19th century gathering to Utah Territory, church members in need could draw on a Perpetual Emigration Fund, which they repaid in either money or service, to help others to join the Saints.
"That was a style of meeting a problem, that of getting the Latter-day Saints to Utah. Now the problem is the opposite helping them to stay where they are and build the church in their own countries."
The success stories very quickly began to accumulate. A PEF brochure told some of them:
• Tatiana and Maylin, Peru. From a very poor family, the sisters were sent by their father to Lima, where they were to make their own way. They scratched out a meager existence until PEF gave them an opportunity to train, one in nursing and the other in medical technology.
• Nadine, Haiti. In a country with 80 percent unemployment, she studied to be a teacher, with a job guaranteed.
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