Thinking About Your 2024 Application
Dear IST community
Thank you for showing an interest in applying to the ‘James Rao – Live Your Dream’ Foundation. By now you will know more about the fund and should have taken it upon yourself to find out more about James Rao, a former student of the IST and previous winner of the ‘Outstanding Contribution to IST’ award. If you haven’t already done so, please click here to be taken to the ‘About James’ section of the website to find out how this incredible opportunity has been made available to you as well as its aim of keeping the memory of James alive in 2023 and far beyond.
The opportunities presented to you within this application represent something that is unprecedented in a school community and is only possible due to the amazing and heartfelt generosity of the Rao family in memory of James who was one of life’s true adventurers and who lived his dream in his short but very action packed life.
James Rao’s Live Your Dream Foundation provides you with the opportunity of funding your own life changing adventure; to travel anywhere in the world; to live your dream and to make a real and sustained difference to a diverse range of communities and environments. James did exactly this on an IST trip to Mumbai, India in 2010 when he worked in an orphanage and local school with other students and staff, to positively affect the lives of children in a city very close to his heart. You can read more about that trip here and the continuing good work in his name on this page.
This application pack will guide you through the process, from the initial idea to the successful undertaking of your adventure and expectations upon your return. There are very limited places every year and you application has to be extremely well planned and researched if you are to benefit from the unconditional funding offered by the Foundation.
Please remember, this is not a school trip and you will be probably undertaking your adventure independently and without teachers there with you. It is your responsibility to organise and present us with your proposal so that we can verify that it is safe and matches the spirit of the James’s Foundation.
Who can go?
When can I go?
Are there any exemptions?
For applications in the 2023-2024 academic year, the holiday dates are listed on the document below. Click on the tab to access this information.
Thank you for showing an interest in applying to the ‘James Rao – Live Your Dream’ Foundation. By now you will know more about the fund and should have taken it upon yourself to find out more about James Rao, a former student of the IST and previous winner of the ‘Outstanding Contribution to IST’ award. If you haven’t already done so, please click here to be taken to the ‘About James’ section of the website to find out how this incredible opportunity has been made available to you as well as its aim of keeping the memory of James alive in 2023 and far beyond.
The opportunities presented to you within this application represent something that is unprecedented in a school community and is only possible due to the amazing and heartfelt generosity of the Rao family in memory of James who was one of life’s true adventurers and who lived his dream in his short but very action packed life.
James Rao’s Live Your Dream Foundation provides you with the opportunity of funding your own life changing adventure; to travel anywhere in the world; to live your dream and to make a real and sustained difference to a diverse range of communities and environments. James did exactly this on an IST trip to Mumbai, India in 2010 when he worked in an orphanage and local school with other students and staff, to positively affect the lives of children in a city very close to his heart. You can read more about that trip here and the continuing good work in his name on this page.
This application pack will guide you through the process, from the initial idea to the successful undertaking of your adventure and expectations upon your return. There are very limited places every year and you application has to be extremely well planned and researched if you are to benefit from the unconditional funding offered by the Foundation.
Please remember, this is not a school trip and you will be probably undertaking your adventure independently and without teachers there with you. It is your responsibility to organise and present us with your proposal so that we can verify that it is safe and matches the spirit of the James’s Foundation.
Who can go?
- Overseas visit applications will only be considered from students in Grade 9 to 12
- Domestic visit applications will be considered from any student in IST secondary school.
- You may travel on your own or as part of a small group of IST students.
When can I go?
- All visits must be organised in the school holiday periods. Visits of up to two weeks can take place in the February half term, Easter holidays, October half term and Christmas holidays.
- Visits of more than two weeks have to take place in our summer holidays or at the end of your examination period (G10 & G12).
Are there any exemptions?
- Grade 10 & 12 students should not organise any visits between the October half term holiday and the end of their final examination period in May/June.
- Grade 9 & 11 students should not organise any visit over the Easter holiday.
- If you are in G11 and wish to study medicine after graduation, it may be that you need to use the summer holiday in the middle of the IB qualification for a practical placement opportunity. Check carefully.
For applications in the 2023-2024 academic year, the holiday dates are listed on the document below. Click on the tab to access this information.
How much can I apply for?
As a guideline, there is a bursary available of approximately €4000 per individual per year with the possibility of up to three to four successful individuals per year if extremely strong applications for funding are received.
Being Responsible with you application.
You will have seen a lot on the news about the rise of 'voluntourism' and other issues such as so called 'Poverty Porn' which can be very damaging to countries. Please spend some time listening to this Podcast to get a more full understanding of the process of 'voluntourism'. Watch the comedy take on this in the first video below and then, if you have time, watch the documentary below right.
Now think about whether your proposal would be truly beneficial to yourself and to the communities.
As a guideline, there is a bursary available of approximately €4000 per individual per year with the possibility of up to three to four successful individuals per year if extremely strong applications for funding are received.
Being Responsible with you application.
You will have seen a lot on the news about the rise of 'voluntourism' and other issues such as so called 'Poverty Porn' which can be very damaging to countries. Please spend some time listening to this Podcast to get a more full understanding of the process of 'voluntourism'. Watch the comedy take on this in the first video below and then, if you have time, watch the documentary below right.
Now think about whether your proposal would be truly beneficial to yourself and to the communities.
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Are you now ready to start your application? If so, click here to be taken to Step 2 and start to research the possibilities.