By Brenda Luzmar | Scholar
Dear donor:
My name is Brenda. I'm 17 years old. I am studying my sixth semester of Telebachillerato Comunitario. My community is called Rancho Nuevo it is 12 hours from the capital city of Oaxaca in Mexico.
I want to tell you that being a Fondo Guadalupe Musalem Scholarship recipient has been a dream of mine, knowing that with this scholarship I will be able to enter the university to study a degree in Business Administration. This is my biggest goal right now and I hope to achieve it.
My father works in the fields, he is a farmer, and my mother works at home. I have three brothers. I am the first of my family to enter the university. My father and mother are proud that I am studying. In my community, women cannot study because they get married at an early age and because there is not enough income, but my parents have guided me to study in order to improve my life.
In my community, people say that I am a woman who can improve herself and they have been very impressed by the fact that each month I travel to the city of Oaxaca to receive training in many subjects such as photography, academics, learning skills and strategies, etc. Importantly, I receive the financial support that helps me so much to pay for my studies.
Everything I have learned in the Fondo Guadalupe Musalem has been very important. I really like to share with my classmates issues such as: violence prevention in relationships, caring for the environment, and the love of reading.
What I have learned has helped me in psychological and scholastic ways; I have shared the topics of prevention of gender violence and sexuality with the young people in my community, especially those in high school because they are the ones who understand best what I teach them.
I think it is important that young women study because everyone has the right to study, to have their own goals, to not to suffer discrimination. I study because I want to improve myself, I want to support my brothers so that they also study, and above all I want to contribute to my community.
In my community, unfortunately, we do not have a library to go to learn about some subject or simply read, but in the Fondo I have books available to me. I love reading history books and other books related to my studies.
I want to thank you for your donations because thanks to you I am going to finish my baccalaureate and I am motivated to study more. I thank you with all my heart for supporting me and for remaining interested in contributing to the education of young women who have all the desire to continue studying but do not have the economic resources to do so.
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