Academy offers scholarships to quake survivors.(National Maritime Academy ) From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: November 3, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Brigita Denis Dwinatalia's dream of studying psychology at state-run Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta crumbled last spring when an earthquake hit south-central Java Island May 27.

Her family's house in Guwosari, a village in Yogyakarta's Bantul district, was one of more than 17,000 destroyed in the quake. As a result her family had to take the money that was set aside for the 18-year-old Catholic's university studies and use it to build a bamboo house.

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