Meet Our Current Scholarship Students!

Carlos Alfredo Guzman de Paz

Age: 21

Institution: Lutheran University of El Salvador

Specialty: Bachelor’s in Business Administration

Year Starting the Scholarship Program: February 2017

GPA: 8 out of 10

What Impact has the Scholarship Program had on Your Life?

The scholarship program has ingrained in us scholarship recipients the desire to better ourselves professionally, and by the same token has implanted excellent moral values that allow us to see things very differently from how they were seen before. We have learned to value the little we have and the efforts of others to offer help to those who need it most, without expecting anything in return.

 

Elias Sameul Servellon Estrada

Age: 18

Institution: University

Specialty: English Language

Year Starting Scholarship Program: 2020

GPA: 7 out of 10

What Impact Has the Scholarship Program had on your Community?

There are many of us youth who have been benefited by the program, and we are fortunate to have the opportunity to continue studying and go far. I never planned to study at the University. In our community, it was almost impossible to think that we could go to the University.

 

Fredy Antonion Servellon Estrada

Age: 32

Institution: Lutheran University of El Salvador

Specialty: Agroecological Engineering Technician

Year Starting the Scholarship Program: January 2022

GPA: 7 out of 10

What Has Been your Greatest Obstacles in Order to Continue your Education?

Economic resources and the few opportunities to opt for formal employment are part of the difficulties that not only I have had to overcome. Even if we have the desire and the motivation to continue studying, we still see ourselves as obligated to work in the fields, where they pay us a salary less than minimum wage. Which is not reliable, because from one day to the next you could be left without work. In my case, it is much more complicated since I have a home that I have to help maintain.

 

Gabriela Sarai Cruz Santos

Age: 18

Institution: Technical High School

Specialty: Accountant Technician

Year Started the Scholarship Program: January 2021

GPA: 9 out of 10

What are your Plans After Graduation?

To look for a job so I can help my family, and later help, however I can, the youth who one day, like me, needed help. I also want to be in solidarity with those who have a dream that they want to make reality. Later, I want to make my home, so I have an appropriate place to return to after work and rest. I also want to help the elderly in my community, those who are cruelly forgotten by their children or simply don’t have families who can help them buy food and basic necessities. What I want most of all is to not forget all the help I’m receiving now, and to be grateful knowing I can return the help that I’m now receiving from good people who have given me an opportunity, showing them my desire to get ahead. It’s worth pointing out that I would also like to help animals in the street that are experiencing difficult situations, because we all deserve to be treated with kindness.

 

Glenda Cristina Juarez Hernandez

Age: 16

Institution: High School

Specialty: Distance Learning

Year Started the Scholarship Program: January 2022

GPA: 9 out of 10

What Impact has the Scholarship Program had on your Life?

The opportunity it is giving me to continue my studies, which via this program, can help my community with what we do with our social time. I have hopes of being able to go to the University. It is something I would not have hoped for myself if not for this program.

 

Jessica Yamileth Servellon Estrada

Age: 22

Institution: Lutheran University of El Salvador

Specialty: Legal Sciences

Year Started the Scholarship Program: January 2016

GPA: 8.02 out of 10

What Impact has the Scholarship Program had on your Community?

This program has created a great opportunity for many youths with the desire to learn and develop themselves as people and professionals. It has been a great help for the families of both prior and current scholars, as many of them didn’t have the means necessary to better themselves and get ahead. Thanks to this program, many of us have been able to better ourselves and fulfill our dreams. With the social hours that were conducted, young scholars have been able to help the community a lot. Those hours are conducted every year in different areas, like agroecology, or support for the community activity promoter, where many problems are helped. All these forms of community support are very essential for all inhabitants.

 

Juan Carlos Flores Hernandez

Age: 29

Institution: University of New San Salvador

Specialty: Doctorate in Medicine

Year Started the Scholarship Program: January 2020

GPA: 7 out of 10

What Has Been your Greatest Obstacles in Continuing your Education?

My biggest obstacle was my way of thinking and looking at life, because I believed that it would never be possible to get ahead. Nonetheless, I have realized that by working and making the effort, yes, it is possible to get ahead. Before, I saw the economic factor as an obstacle and I thought I’d never be able to attend university, but now I realize that that was only my mindset. Talking about the economic factor, it does continue to be a problem that hits home, but unlike before, I have now learned to fight for what I want, and that anything can be accomplished with a positive mind and plenty of effort. Another obstacle, one that hinders the desire to continue studying, is the social problem that is a secret to nobody and is latent in our society, but I have also learned that if we live in fear, we will never be able to achieve our goals.

 

Noel Enrique Santos Juarez

Age: 21

Institution: Lutheran University of El Salvador

Specialty: Bachelor’s in Business Administration

Year Started the Scholarship Program: January 2017

GPA: 7.8 out of 10

What are your Plans After Graduating from University?

Opt for a stable job to be able to help my family, economically speaking, and be able to contribute to a part of the program, since, thanks to it, I will be able to graduate from the University. I also want to help my community in the different projects that they undertake and support the scholarship program in different activities.

 

Ruth Esmeralda Perez Chavez

Age: 16

Institution: High School

Year Started the Scholarship Program: January 2022

GPA: 9 out of 10

What Impact has the Scholarship Program had on your Life?

An impact I never expected, since it makes my desire to continue studying economically viable, allowing me access to new knowledge as well as new technologies. Thanks to the program, today I can continue with my goals for personal growth, and at the same time have the opportunity to help my family get ahead and have a better way of life.

 

Stefany Alejandra Echeverria Santos

Age: 17

Institution: High School

Specialty: Accountant Technician

Year Started the Scholarship Program: January 2021

GPA: 9 out of 10

What Impact has the Scholarship Program had on your Community?

It has had a big impact since it encourages and motivates the youth to be able to undertake things and get ahead. Thanks to this program, I have learned to take care of the environment, through beneficial projects on our health and wellbeing. The project follows closely with mechanisms that seek out the common good from among all the inhabitants of the community.

 

Wendy Sofia Gomez Hernandez

Age: 16

Institution: High School

Specialty: Distance Learning

Year Started the Scholarship Program: January 2022

GPA: 8 out of 10

What Has Been your Greatest Obstacles in Order to Continue your Education?

The biggest obstacle is economic since, due to economic issues, I wasn’t able to continue to better myself. My father only works the fields, and because he is elderly, they hardly ever seek him out. My mother is a homemaker and has no income with which to help me. Another obstacle is transportation. There generally isn’t transportation on Sunday afternoons and I often find myself paying for taxis, which take advantage of the demand and charge quite a lot. The scholarship program has helped me to overcome many of these obstacles and continue my education.

 

Yeni Edith Servellon Chirino

Age: 16

Institution: Dr. Joaquin Jule Galvez Educational Complex

Specialty: Distance Learning

Year Started the Scholarship Program: January 2022

GPA: 8.5 out of 10

What Impact has the Scholarship Program had on your Life?

It has been significant, since it has taught me the value of studying and getting ahead and showing me that solidarity and cooperation are a fundamental basis for life. The scholarship program has changed me for the better since it reflects me as a successful person, helping me in my ways of being and thinking, teaching me the importance of my formation, and that if I propose to do so, I can be someone in my life.