One of the best parts about this time of year is the new PathLight students are chosen. These are boys and girls who recently completed what we in the States would call Eighth Grade. Now they are ready to make the big step to High School, and PathLight has admitted them to the program. It’s fun to see the potential in each of these young faces!
This year PathLight offered the Sponsorship+ Program to three schools. Sixty-three students completed an application. After reviewing recommendations from teachers, checking grades, and evaluating test scores, PathLight staff interviewed 26 students and their parents. All of them were great candidates, but ultimately we could only accept 15 for funding reasons. It’s sad to say not to the other 11 merely because the funds were not available!
Here are four of the students and a brief profile on each. Please take a moment to read each one. No doubt you’ll be touched by the hope — through faith and learning — that these students are excited about!
Joseline would like to become an accountant. She wrote in her essay, “Being successful doesn’t always mean that it is easy, because if you aim for something you have to work hard for it.” She will be the first person in her family to attend high school.
Quincy aspires to be a doctor. He told us “I think I deserve this scholarship because I’ve been working very hard and my mom has been there every step of the way, pushing me from the beginning and that’s why I am where I am today.” He will be the first in the family to attend high school.
Abel had an outstanding score on the Primary School Exam; the highest of all our applicants. His father’s farm provides food for the family and a little money, but not enough to send the children to high school. With a secondary education, Abel hopes to help his family and he says that it will “encourage young students, the ones after us, to have the energy, the potential and the will to go to high school to get an education.”
Ashjohnae wrote “I want to go to high school because I have seen how hard it is to get a job without an education. Without an education nothing is possible”. She pledged to work her hardest, so that she could give back to her parents and her community.