Peer To Peer Lending Crowd Funding Fund A Student - CLTC Higher Education

CLTC Higher Education

Peer To Peer CSR Project - Fund A Student Get Your Money Back

We aim to connect philanthrophists, ngo’s, individuals and corporate entites that would like to have positive social impact to make a difference by funding students higher education(tertiary education) costs where the students would then pay them back Interest+full amount back to the sponsor monthly over a long period of time, from the time which student expenses are paid for their studies.

What Was The Reason For Starting This Initiative?

Over the years as we have served countless students counselling them and their parents on what are the possible options for them in terms of tertiary education we realized that the tertiary education sector is severely underfunded and lack sufficient support in terms of grants/scholarships or even financing options. In comparison we noticed primary and secondary education gets lots more support from governments, NGO’s, CSR Initiatives. And besides this we noticed there was an immense disparity between accesibility to tertiary education mainly due to lack of funds in students part and ever increasing fees of tertiary education providers and most programs which aim to bring solution to this are geo specific either stuck to supporting only one country or community. Which again creates Inequality. Did you know that only very few countries provide financial aid/grants or full ride scholarships or loans to repay for college after graduating university to their citizens? And yet hundreds and thousands of students still lack opportunity to attend university due to financial difficulties to be able to afford it because they are required to pay their tuition fees and other university fees all at once for entire year or as 2 semesters.

We try to create opportunities where there is none for those that deserve it and have the drive/willingness to go all in and achieve their goals. 

But there are instances how hard some people struggle, even getting good grades are no use to allow them to proceed forward to their dream career; this can be due to reasons like the degree cost is way beyond what a normal person can find from their natural country economic environment within a few years, limited or no free university seats in own country, age cap for entry admission to university degree they want(so they need earn super fast the amount required to be able to go to university which is sometimes almost impossible), the students parents were not educated or aware enough to have saved any funds at all for university education and found out that it costs way more and is not the same ball game as high school fees, unable to get bank loans either due to their country having no financial institutions that lend funds to individuals or capital control of foreign currency due to economic conditions of country which means their banks not encouraged to give loans to spend in foreign country or collateral for obtaining bank loan not sufficient/collateral is owned by multiple people in family etc

Also another reason for us to start this Initiative was since there was no other organization which had created a solution for this very huge social problem which exists across several countries!

So we have addressed most of these problems in two ways; 

The 1st way was to use our own company funds and university funds to open a scholarship program to study abroad for key subjects that students can’t get into in their own country or lack finances for.

Proof here; https://cltchighereducation.com/cltc-higher-education-study-in-china-global-scholarship-am/ 

The 2nd way was to link students’ financial need for a degree to people who have excess money which they can choose to spend on anything their heart desires or have capital parked in savings accounts or banks that are giving them no returns or negative returns due to inflation in various countries. This system is also known as peer to peer lending. Initially it was all manual, now we have got it to a point of semi-manual where people can see the student profiles on our website and how much they need. We made this system so it can keep running sustainably even after we are no longer in this world, every person that funds student degree costs would get paid back monthly Interest+part of capital by student which in turn means the same investor/lender can continue to reuse that same money over and over again to drive more social and positive impact in the world plus as a bonus they get ROI as Interest too which they can reinvest or use for anything they like. The purpose of this model is so that people will not take money for granted since even these people who have big capital had to do a lot of hard work to get to the point they are at so it is only right that they need get repaid their funds monthly by students once they use it to enable themselves to achieve something otherwise impossible. 

We look forward to working with you to help expand this program as more and more philanthropists/invenstors/lendors/ngo’s and corporates join us to support this cause enabling students to reach their true potential.

For Individual/Corporate Investors/Lenders

Why Fund A Student?

  • Help save lives, research has proven that high school graudates which are academically gifted but lack funds to enroll in university have higher tendency to commit suicide as they fall into despair with high expectations of parents, society and as they get left behind while their friends go ahead without them. (Source of research paper https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=bsba)
  • Better impact generated compared to other giving platforms like Kickstarter, GoFundme, Indiegogo etc since our system ensures to return your funds to you over time and also gives you a small ROI
  • CSR Initiative- experience the warm feeling of giving and doing good
  • Can sometimes be used as a means to reduce tax bill
  • More predictable than investing in start up’s as this would be a safer way to generate predictable return’s with lower geussing required compared to if start up will fail or make losses or when it will break even or make a profit.
  • No maintainance & passive income stream
  • Low to no default risk
  • No competition you have to face to make a return on your money, compared to investing your own money in your business or other companies which all need compete with others to make sales to generate profits thus difficult to predict potential return.

Can't I Earn Higher ROI Using Other Asset Classes?

It might be possible but here we focus on trying to make a positive change in the world and create lasting impact. Not really easy as well in other asset classes unless your ready to face losses, put lots of hard work in and take more risk than you need to. Below is comparison of all those asset classes. Out of all of them peer to peer lending is a stable, easy and much more reliable ROI generating method while also having lasting impact in CSR field.

Real Estate Buying & Selling

  • Extremely big capital required to start
  • Even if secure bank loan and put down deposit will incur more upfront costs on loan repayment
  • Illiquid market takes long time to sell bought real estate
  • Lots of manual work like clearing and cleaning real estate, evaluations, viewings, finding buyers etc
  • If lucky to sell real estate within year then can most of time expect to make 3-10% ROI after all expenses, taxes, bank loan repayments etc
  • Risk of renter leaving sooner than contract end period and needing to return key money
  • Dealing with repairs, people management, sorting issues of renter, constant monitoring of property etc.

Stock Market Trading/Investing

  • Too many fees such as brokerage, government levys, withdrawal fees etc
  • Complete gamble if your investment amount will go up or down. High risk of lossing all invested amount incase of financial markets turbulence.
  • Illiquid market meaning once enter bear market and your invested stock price falls below price you have bought then it will take several months/years for it to regain it’s stock price and go above purchase price to get rid of unrealized loss.
  • In some countries if make profit in stock market need pay capital gains tax also along with income tax so reducing profits even more.
  • Lots of manual work to analyze markets/stocks/company reports etc to decide which stock to invest in
  • Most successful traders and investors can only make 3-8% ROI after all expenses and these are people who have millions of dollars of capital to be invested, but even still they cannot gurantee this ROI so not reliable ROI and no monthly cashflow return to investor.

Savings Accounts & Fixed Deposits

  • Your bank may not pay any Interest on either or both. Or it maybe too small of a return like 0.5% or 1%  etc. 
  • Some banks don’t pay monthly Interest payments and only pays yearly

Start A Business

  • Your business would take a few months or years till it generates a profit. 
  • You need to put lots of hard work since need to do business plan, market research, setup business, hire staff, find customers and service them 
  • The failure rate for new startups is currently 90%
  • Highly competitive markets

Terminology

Lendor/Investor= Any Individual/organization that decides to take part in this CSR project may it be a corporate, ngo, government, investor, philanthropist etc. The Individual/organization may also decide if they will require the student to pay the Interest mentioned on student profile or if they don’t need it (Some of our lendors/investors don’t ask student for Interest either due to them being high net worth or religious reasons).

Student= Any Individual that has graduated high school and meet our programs eligibility criteria which tests if really they have no other means for tertiary education.

What have we done to reduce default risk?

  • Most of the students/parents that would apply for requesting funds would have submitted us several documents and proofs required for admission into universities which includes financial standing checks since visa issuance requirements need student to submit us bank statements and prove finances.
  • We also do require parents to prove their monthly incomes in case student is in unverified catergory.
  • You would make payments most of times directly to university or other service providers. So less risk of student misusing funds.
  • We also have support of university to reduce loan default risk since incase student starts missing monthly repayments due we would discontinue future funding and request university to hold the issuance of the qualification such as diploma or degree certificate till due monthly loan repayment is repaid.
  • We also have capability of requesting immigration authorities to confront student incase of defaulted loan incase they actually try to disappear.
  • We also maintain a blacklist for people that defualt on loans and borrower would be added on to that list incase all all recovery efforts fail which can effect their future careers and credit scores as it is publicly accessible.
  • We do an Initial calculation of current income inflows, future income potential, student earning capacity, etc and measure it against the amount that is being requested and time duration within which entire amount would be able to be repaid and only if it has a good chance of succeeding only we would approve the borrower application.
  • Divided all borrower applicants into 2 catergories called Verified and Unverified where Verified borrowers have lowest to no default risk.
  • Since this funding is for students life and career improvement through higher education it is a very important matter for them and such they will not be inclined to try and defualt but will instead try their every effort to pay back their dues. Plus these students would be unable to attain this higher education if it weren’t for the loan so they would try their best to keep their end of the deal. 
  • Borrower needs submit all expenses reciepts to us to prove usage of loan money and we relay any discrepancy to lender/investor.
  • We have indicated risk rating based on multiple factors for each borrower profile, the risk rating as as follows; No Default Risk ,Low, Medium & High.

What is difference between Verified & Unverified profiles?

Verified Borrower Profiles

  • Passed parents & student verification interview
  • Provided evidence of income sufficient to cover monthly payments
  • Provided parents employers HR & Finance teams contacts and passed background check
  • KYC double checked and verified
  • Have sufficient funds as savings or one parents job income sufficient to cover monthly repayment even if other parent looses job
  • Student have good grades and higher chances of succeeding
  • Verified Borrower Profiles sometimes comes with no default risk rating which means that the total borrowed amount would be backed by our company funds as a gurantee. Incase of default our company will repay monthly repayments to lender/investor.
  • Verified Borrower Profiles funds for entire study duration would be deposited into our company accounts as a corporate loan and we would be disbursing funds to related services providers when time for those expenses comes. Interest gets calculated on this loan from time money lands on our account at rate mentioned on student profile and repayments will happen only once money lent is spent on university costs from date of payment indicated on the reciept recieved for those costs from borrower.
  • Verified Borrower Profiles can request funds for all expenses related to their higher education as long as they are capable to repay it with Interest to lender
  • Verified Borrower Profiles can pay us a fee to keep certain information on their profile private such as name, profile picture etc since they have passed several stringent checks by us to be verified in first place.

UnVerified Borrower Profiles

  • Provided evidence of income sufficient to cover monthly payments
  • KYC passed
  • UnVerified Borrower Profiles comes with a default risk rating according to which the Interest rate would be adjusted to higher value incase risk higher
  • UnVerified Borrower Profiles funding will happen on yearly basis by lender and would be deposited to related services providers direclty when time for those expenses comes.
  • UnVerified Borrower Profiles can request funds for only expenses like university tuition fee, university hostel fees and admission processing fees that can be double verified and possibly get a refund from seller incase loan is defaulted by student.

How can you trust our company?

  • Our company is verified and registered with the Government as a PVT LTD company
  • Our company registration can be checked online using official Government website by requesting us for our Company number for potential serious philanthropists, NGO’s, lenders, corporate investors etc.
  • Our company is verified by several banks that have over 120years in business you may check here as an example https://www.hnb.net/personal/promotions/card-promotions/education/credit-cards-education/cltc-higher-education
  • Our company has a solid track record of serving our students with great service you can simply google our company name and reviews to verify.
  • Our company undergoes yearly external audits by recognized audit firm which ensures our integrity even further.

What is the legal documents & requirements for lenders/investors?

  • Bank statement proving availability of funds equivalent to amount you wish to fund student with
  • Signed legally binding loan funds pledge document incase of funding UnVerified profiles so as to promise funding for rest of years of students education on year by year basis.
  • Signed loan agreement that ensures Interest is calculated from time lender funds student
  • Ability to complete payment for Verified Profiles borrowing requests as a corporate loan via credit/debit card or crypto where transaction costs is borne seperately to funded amount by lender themselves
  • KYC documents like company BR if corporate or if Individual then government recognized ID document 
  • Read & agree to our peer to peer lending system T&C on our website

What will happen if a borrower defaults?

The borrowers have a seven-day grace period window to pay the monthly instalments every month since the day from which the payment falls due. If the payments are not made within the seven-day window an additional penal rate is applicable on the outstanding amount which the borrower is liable to repay. Incase borrower further defaults on repayments we shall inform university and other related parties to take necessary actions help continue repayments. If all such fails then lender is allowed to take any legal means to collect funds from borrower while holding us legally non liable as we would have taken every effort to try and resume repayments from borrower.

Current Borrower Funding Requests

*As soon as funding completed borrower profile will be removed from public view and kept internally with company so as to only display real time available funding requests here.

Verified Profiles

Name Protected User ID 5291 - paid for privacy

*Risk Rating: No Default Risk (Company Funds Backing Guranteed)
*Interest Rate: 2.5% Per Annum
*Degree Name: MBBS
*Amount Requested: 17,610,296.93 LKR=aprox 58,365.35USD for all degree cost from 1 lender/investor

or
*Amount Requested: 8,805,148.465 LKR=aprox 29182.675USD each from 2 lenders/investors
or
*Amount Requested: 5,870,098.97667 LKR=aprox 19455.117USD each from 3 lenders/investors
or
*Amount Requested: 4,402,574.2325 LKR each=aprox 14591.34USD from 4 lenders/investors
or
*Amount Requested: 3,522,059.386 LKR=aprox 11673.07USD each from 5 lenders/investors
or
*Amount Requested: 1,761,029.693 LKR=aprox 5836.535USD each from 10 lenders/investors
*Country Applying: China
*Degree Duration: 6 Years
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 1st year: 52,089.38 LKR=aprox 172.64USD
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 2nd year: 104,178.76 LKR=aprox 345.28USD
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 3rd year: 156,268.14 LKR=aprox 517.92USD
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 4th year: 208,357.52 LKR=aprox 690.55USD
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 5th year: 260,446.9 LKR=aprox 863.19USD
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 6th year: 260,446.9 LKR=aprox 863.19USD
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 7th year: 208,357.54 LKR=aprox 690.55USD
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 8th year: 156,268.15 LKR=aprox 517.92USD
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 9th year: 104,178.77 LKR=aprox 345.28USD
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately If 1 Lender In 10th year: 52,089.38 LKR=aprox 172.64USD

The funds would be collected at once for entire asking amount by Company and disbursed to borrowers related expenses when time comes, till then we will ensure to take into consideration Interest at rate mentioned. Example you had paid full amount on April but student pays related university tuition fee on June so then for duration from April to June your Interest will be added and once paid expense from that point onwards student will need to repay monthly repayment amount stated above and additional Interest of those two months at rate mentioned.

This borrower can accept single lender/investor or even a group of investors/lendors. Incase of group of investors/lendors want invest they must find friends/family etc which would fund student together to cover requested full amount.

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UnVerified Profiles

Sulayman D.

Details Yet to be submitted

Yvette K.

*Risk Rating: Low (Has yearly repayment capacity of 820,972.50 LKR=aprox 2720.93USD)
*Interest Rate: 4% Per Annum
*Degree Name: Msc Dentistry
*Amount Requested: 1,736,072.21 LKR per year=aprox 5753.82USD (Tuition + Rent University fees)
*Country Applying: China
*Degree Duration: 3 Years
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately: 51,255.77 LKR=aprox 169.88USD
The funds would be paid at time of expense direct to university by lender or investor on behalf of borrower and amount requested would be funded yearly meaning in above case 2nd year you need pay another 1,736,072.21 LKR to university and also in 3rd year again and in all these times you will recieve your monthly repayment. When go to 2nd year onwards monthly repayment is multiplied by 2 and in 3rd year it is multiplied by 3 since it is like student has taken 3 loans from you one in each year. Thus repayments will happen for each year lent amount till they are completely repaid.

This borrower can accept single lender/investor or even a group of investors/lendors. Incase of group of investors/lendors want invest they must find friends/family etc which would fund student together to cover requested full amount.

Claire M.

*Risk Rating: Low (Has yearly repayment capacity of 164,194.50 LKR=aprox 544.19USD)
*Interest Rate: 4% Per Annum
*Degree Name: Bsc Petroleum Engineering
*Amount Requested: 1,102,377.20 LKR=aprox 3653.58USD per year (Tuition + Rent University fees)
*Country Applying: China
*Degree Duration: 4 Years
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately: 15,721.38 LKR=aprox 52.10USD
The funds would be paid at time of expense direct to university by lender or investor on behalf of borrower and amount requested would be funded yearly meaning in above case 2nd year you need pay another 1,102,377.20 LKR to university and also in 3rd & 4th year again and in all these times you will recieve your monthly repayment. When go to 2nd year onwards monthly repayment is multiplied by 2 and in 3rd year it is multiplied by 3 etc since it is like student has taken 4 loans from you total one in each year. Thus repayments will happen for each year lent amount till they are completely repaid.

This borrower can accept single lender/investor or even a group of investors/lendors. Incase of group of investors/lendors want invest they must find friends/family etc which would fund student together to cover requested full amount.

Dery A.

*Risk Rating: Medium (Has yearly repayment capacity of 492,583.50 LKR=aprox 1632.56USD)
*Interest Rate: 4% Per Annum
*Degree Name: Msc Physician Assistant
*Amount Requested: 19,097,133.905 LKR=aprox 63293.13USD per year (Tuition + Rent University fees)
*Country Applying: USA
*Degree Duration: 2 Years
*Monthly Repayment Amount Aproximately: 351,702.79 LKR=aprox 1165.64USD

The funds would be paid at time of expense direct to university by lender or investor on behalf of borrower and amount requested would be funded yearly meaning in above case 2nd year you need pay another 19,097,133.905 LKR to university and in all these times you will receive your monthly repayment. When go to 2nd year onwards monthly repayment is multiplied by 2 since it is like student has taken 2 loans from you one in each year. Thus repayments will happen for each year lent amount till they are completely repaid.

This borrower can accept single lender/investor or even a group of investors/lendors. Incase of group of investors/lendors want invest they must find friends/family etc which would fund student together to cover requested full amount.

Some Prior Success Stories

How To Start As A Lender/Investor

  • Select which profile you want to lend to from above borrower requests and let us know borrower user id or name.
  • Complete the below application form to sign up as a lender/investor
  • We shall get in touch with you through email or whatsapp message to resolve any doubts and get process started
  • Submit required documents as per list we send you
  • Complete loan disbursment payment for borrower loan amount
  • Get your monthly repayments and be happy.
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