Making our Virtual College a tool for empowering women as leaders requires the cooperation of many hearts and many minds.

We need individuals with a wide variety of skills to join hands with us. Apart from the immense work of providing the content material for our courses, we need academic staff to guide the students through their study and administrators to keep the process running smoothly.

 

Most of the persons who are involved in our Virtual College at present give their time and services on either a totally free basis or at a very much reduced cost. This applies to our highly trained academic personnel as much as to the typists, scanners, researchers and secretaries who quietly work in the background. We truly area network of volunteers.

But though our salary bill is at a minimum, we cannot avoid paying the rent for small office premises, web provider expenses, insurances, gas, electricity, water, building repairs, council tax, etc. We incur overheads such as telephone, postage stationery, photocopying, scanning, computer maintenance, software licenses, professional fees, and so on.

Other Colleges often recover their expenses by charging fees. We charge fees from students who can afford to pay them, but since Catherine of Siena College aims to help especially the women who are most in need: our sisters in far way countries who live on small incomes and can rely on little local support, we cannot ever hope to make our enterprise self-supporting by imposing commercial fees and charges.

We founded charitable trusts to enable us to give scholarships to deserving individuals: the Catherine of Siena Educational Trust (UK) and the Housetop Trust for Women's Ministries (USA). These Trusts need your financial support in order to keep our Virtual College going.

Among the reasons for supporting Catherine of Siena College you might consider the following:

• we are adding a vital new component to the emancipation of women throughout the world;
• we are pioneering new courses and a new methodology that will change the lives of many women, helping them to become effective leaders;
• we are achieving our purpose at a minimum cost because of the voluntary work of most of our staff;
• with your support we can do our part to create a world where women will help shape the future and where gender equity is a reality