Hello everyone, and Happy March!

We’re very excited to announce that we have accepted two young women who have previously been scholarship recipients for university scholarships.

Naomi, in Uganda, is going to study mass media and communications at the national university in Kampala. Naomi has been with us since she was in early grade school, and through all that time, she has worked hard and excelled at school and in her community life. It is such an accomplishment to make it to the university; in Uganda, everyone takes a national exam after high school, and only a tiny fraction of students score high enough on their exams to be accepted into university studies, so we are incredibly excited for her. She is a very kind and devout young woman, and we know she will enjoy the university and excel there as well. She starts in August for a four-year program.

We have also accepted Seyla, in Nicaragua, for a university scholarship. Seyla graduated high school back in 2021, the first in her family to do so. She had a desire to go to post-secondary studies, but she ended up having a baby, and moving back into her parents’ house so they could help her. Now her baby is a toddler, and she had decided to study a four-year program in pharmacy at a private university in Leon. She’ll be going to school on Saturdays.

Seyla is so impressive; many women just give up after they have a baby, and they go to work doing whatever they can. Seyla has been living in El Sauce with a girlfriend, and working caring for an elderly woman and her home. The fact that she took the initiative to leave her parents’ home and move into town to get a job is impressive enough. But many women would stay with what they have instead of trying for something more, and she wants to get a university education, which we wholeheartedly support!

Please check out both their pages so that you can read their essays on their post-secondary scholarship applications. They’re really wonderful and we are so excited to see what the future brings for them both.

And don’t forget to take a wander through all the students’ pages; there have been some wonderful updates, including some lovely cards, letters, and news from Nepal and Guatemala.

March is also the month we hold our GoFundMe online fundraiser, in honor of Women’s History Month, International Women’s Day (March 8), and the month of our founding, way back in 2011. Here is the link if you’d like to pass it on or even donate yourself:  Our costs are going up with the post-secondary scholarships, so we appreciate every dollar!

Thanks so much and have a wonderful March!

Birgit, Christa, Janeece, Leslie, and Meghan