UNIT IV: PRACTISE WRITING

Apply For a Grant

Communiqué:

Would you like to contribute to the development of your community, but you do not have the budget to finance your project?

The local municipality is offering grants or funds to projects that would benefit the population and the environment.

Grants will be given to projects on these areas:

• Environment Preservation
• Literacy
• Sustainable Development

Deposit an application and detailed description of your project at the municipality hall.

Vocabulary:

Communiqué /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.keɪ/: an official announcement or statement, especially one made to the media.

Contribute: give (something, especially money) in order to help achieve or provide something.

Grant:a sum of money given by an organization, especially a government, for a particular purpose.

Tips:

One should abide by the areas mentioned in the communiqué in order to benefit from the grant.

N=13 Ibn Al Haytham Street,

Al Quds Neighbourhood,

Oujda.

February 20th, 2015

Ministry of Interior,

Municipality of Oujda,

The president of the municipality.

 

Dear Mr President,

In reply to the municipal communiqué issued on February 16th, we would like to apply for a grant to finance our project.

Our project works on literacy. It aims at fighting illiteracy and helping illiterate people in our area to read and write.

Our main activities would be listening, speaking, reading, writing, and some other pedagogic activities.

To implement this project, we would need a building where the targeted people will study, chairs, books, blackboards or whiteboard, chalk or marker pens, desks, a computer and some learning CD’s and DVD’s.

The project also needs a budget that can be estimated at 80.000 DH.

For more details, we are enclosing a technical card of our project.

Yours sincerely,

Signature

Name, Family name (title)