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SALT LAKE CITY -- This weekend's 181st Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints marks a milestone of sorts for a program that began 10 years ago.
During the Priesthood Session of the 2001 April General Conference, then-Church President Gordon B. Hinckley announced the Perpetual Education Fund.
It allows what Pres. Hinckley called "ambitious young men and women," mostly returned missionaries in otherwise impoverished situations around the world to borrow money for education.
Since the fall of 2001, the church says some 47,000 people have taken part in the fund. Nine in 10 have found work.
For the majority of participants, income has increased by three-to-four times what it was before the schooling.
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