© 1999 -
2012
Home
|
Fatimétou Walet Aly (scholar since 2011)
|
|
|
December, 2011: Fatimétou is a young Tuareg woman from the tiny, remote village of Tin Gnere in Mali, western Africa who was awarded our 2011 Aissata Traore Memorial Scholarship.
She is taking a three year course in Health and Hygiene in Timbuktu, which she began on October 1st, 2011. She intends to use her training to help promote
health education in her village. We will post a photograph of her and details of her first semester soon.
|
Martina (scholar since 2009)
|
|
|
September, 2011: Martina just began her fall (autumn) semester, 2011. In her spring, 2011 semester she took and passed four
more courses: Participatory Research, State and Social Policy and Areas of Intervention, Leadership and Social Organization
and Economics (Level 1). Her average across these four courses is 78%. Martina thanks everyone who is helping her and will update us
again in the winter of 2012.
In the fall (autumn) semester, 2010 Martina took and passed four more courses. Her average across these four courses is 83%. The
coursework is demanding and students must be graded above 90% overall in a course to receive an "A." Martina would like
our donors to know that she is proud of her "A" from her Logic course.
She will soon begin her second year of her social work studies - in the spring, 2011 semester. We will have a further
update on her progress in the summer of 2011.
We are pleased to report that as of July, 2010 Martina is doing very well in her studies. To date she has taken four courses
and has passed each of them. Her average across these four courses is 73%. Her next semester begins in the fall (autumn) of 2010 and we
will have a further update on her progress in the winter of 2011. She thanks all the donors who have made her scholarship
possible.
At the age of nine Martina was forced by her father to drop out of school and, instead, work in the home. Fifteen years later
she made a difficult, personal decision and left her parental home to spend the next six years, working by day and
studying by night, to earn her high school diploma. Because of our donors she is now able to fulfill her dream of going to college.
She is a young Kakchiquel woman from Guatemala, but Martina is not her real name. Because of her status in her country we
cannot identify her. Martina is using her scholarship to study social work and intends to become licensed to practice so that she can
help other indigenous women and children in her community.
|
Our Previous Scholars
|
|
