The Choir's Transylvanian scholarship student

[Sara Ballard]

Dear Choir Members,

As most of you know, our choir provides a scholarship each year for a deserving Hungarian minority student to attend the Berde Mózes Unitarian School in Székelykerestúr, Transylvania (Romania) where our partner congregation is. This helps cover the costs of room and board in the dormitory for students in villages who live too far from the school to commute. Our current student is Nagy Nikoletta, who is in her junior year, and she lives in the village of Körispatak. She greatly appreciates the help that we give her to attend the school.

The cost of the scholarship is $400, and if most of us contribute a small amount ($5 - $20 or so) we should be able to cover the cost. If we end up collecting more than $400, the remainder will be deposited in the Partner Congregation Committee’s Pilgrimage Assistance Fund, which is used to either bring members of our partner congregation to visit us in Concord, or to enable members of First Parish, for whom it would be a financial hardship, to participate in a group pilgrimage to Székelykeresztúr (we hope to be able to travel there again as soon as the pandemic subsides, and the war in nearby Ukraine poses no threat).

If you would like to contribute towards the scholarship, you may either give cash or a check to me at rehearsal, make a deposit in my Venmo account, or mail your contribution to me. If you use a check, please make it out to me (Sara Ballard), as I will give a check for the full amount to the church. Please write “Transylvanian scholarship” on the memo line. You can send the check or cash to me here:

Sara Ballard

34 Aurora Lane

Concord, MA 01742

If you would like to send me a donation via Venmo, my Venmo user name is @Sara-Ballard-3.

Thank you for your generosity!

Best Wishes,

Sara

Nikoletta