In 1955, the Voyageurs Militaire, recognizing the shortage of Registered Nurses, adopted a program to provide financial assistance, in the form of scholarships, to those individuals who enrolled for this training. With 2,131 students receiving over $1,100,000 in scholarships this past year, the Forty & Eight has granted in excess of $20,000,000 and graduated over 23,000 Registered Nurses since the inception of this program.