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Isla Scholarship Program Update - Part Two

1/20/2021

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​👩🏽‍💻 Jaqueline is a nursing student who lives on Isla Mujeres in the colonia La Gloria, and has a dream of becoming a nurse. She has been accepted and started studying in Valladolid at the University of Valladolid, Yucatan, a well respected school. Her mother is a homemaker and her father (Russel Alonzo) is a waiter at a restaurant here on Isla. She also has a 4 yr old younger sister. Jaqueline has had a dream to become a nurse to help others for a long time. She is also dedicated to her family and hopes that one day she can step in and help her younger sister achieve her dreams as well. Her GPA is an 8.5 - a very respectable average! Here are her own words about it: “In the future I would like to travel to new places where they will need my professional nursing skills, see new horizons, and also help my little sister as you are helping me, since at some point in life we will no longer be living at home and I could pay for her education. I do it because I love my little sister, and the children for whom I would like to treat and care for when I have my profession as a nurse.” Her expenses as a nursing student will be a bit more than the average student. She will have to buy uniforms and a blood pressure cuff and stethoscope for starters. I am sure there will be other extra costs. At this time we have just 3 sponsors on her team, and need to fill it out with at least 5 more.
We are starting both students at $6,000 pesos/month, but would like to increas their monthly stipend to $9,000 (about $460usd/month). With enough team members each pledging what they are comfortable with, we can easily reach these goals! Their monthly expenses include not only registration, tuition and books but also living expenses like rent, food, utilities and transportation to school. We have helped with computers when necessary, since education is no longer possible without one. To graduate a student from university here in Mexico, it is about $25,000 USD total over about 4 years. With many sponsors contributing, it is an easy goal to meet! We hope you are interested in hopping on a team, or know someone you can invite to join with you. I have heard many times from sponsors that they get far more out of participating in this program than they give. It is a very rewarding experience to make a true difference in a young adult's life. Following their dreams and getting a university education has ripple effects far beyond themselves! Thanks for considering this, and we hope to hear from you! (If you don’t want to make a year-long commitment, donations of any amount are happily accepted to help with extra expenses and special needs. Paypal to moongrl722@gmail.com)

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Isla Scholarship Program Update - Part One

1/20/2021

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Hello from the Isla Scholarship Program,
All is well as we transition, graduating two more students and taking on two new ones. It is always a busy time for us administrators of the Scholarship Program. We are very proud to have graduated Miguel with a law degree from the university in Merida. Paola will be finishing her dental internships next month, when she will be called Dr. Paola and be able to practice dentistry. We are so proud of both these young adults and all that they have worked so hard to accomplish!
Now we have chosen two new students who are beginning their scholarships with us. Both started their studies without financial help and soon realized they would have to drop out unless help came from someplace. (In Mexico, once a student starts out in an academic program, they must finish it without taking a break. If they suspend their studies for whatever reason, they lose all earned credits and must start completely over again. This makes it impossible to take a break to earn enough to finish their university education.) And this is where our Scholarship Program can come in and help.

I would like to present these two students, with the hope that you might be interested in helping sponsor them. We form a 'team' for each student and the monthly support from these teams keeps the student in school. Sponsors commit to as little as $30/month up to $100/mo or more to help their student. In return the students keep a good GPA and write a letter to their team of sponsors every month. If/when you are on Isla, you will get to meet with your student and get to know them personally! It is a wonderful intercultural exchange as families meet families and a young adult gets an education they could only dream about. We hope you keep reading and choose a student!
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👩🏻‍💻Tamara came to us in October of last year asking for financial help. She lives here on Isla Mujeres and goes to school in Cancun, studying graphic design. When the pandemic hit, her family became unable to continue supporting her because both parents lost their employment. She was able to find a very part time job but it wasn't enough to pay her expenses. She continued going to school even as she began going into debt, to get all the education she could and she hoped for a miracle so she could continue somehow. But she was facing the possibility of having to give up her dream when the University would not let her register for fall classes unless she began payments on past tuition due. She started a go-fund-me type page as she desperately looked for any way to stay in school. And she found us. We liked her strength, perseverance and big dreams. When asked what her dream for her future is, she said: "I want to be able to finish my University studies, to be able to travel to foreign places and explore new ideas and to be able to create and learn more about design. I want to have my own brand and my own business and create and sell my professional services as a graphic designer."
She has a GPA of 8.5 and is fluent in English! (This is a sign she is not afraid to fearlessly take chances, make mistakes and persevere when she has a goal.) We are proud to add Tamara to our scholarship program and hope to add a handful of new sponsors to her team. You will be well rewarded!


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