By Amanda Hall | Development Coordinator
Dear Friends:
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." Malcolm X.
Just one week ago, we kicked off 2018 with our annual "Entrega de Becas" ceremony, where we (re-)welcomed 135 new and returning scholars - and their parents or guardians - to the OYE family. Our "Adelante Jóvenes" Scholarship Program has been the heart of OYE since our foundation in 2005. We believe that education is key to breaking generational cycles of poverty - and most especially girls' education.
This important program would not be possible without your support. We would like to give a special and heartfelt shout out to our recurring donors! We are so grateful that we can count on your support month to month, year to year. Your consistency allows us to be consistent for the young people who need our support.
OYE's consistent support changes lives. Do you remember Johanny and Lastenia?
To refresh your memory, we introduced you to sisters Johanny and Lastenia in late 2016 via this video. In 2012, their father died in a car accident, devastating their family emotionally and economically. Like so many other young people from single-parent, resource-poor famiies, and despite the tenacity of their mother Johana, Lastenia - the eldest of the two - was unable to return to school the following year.
One day, as she scoured the city in search for work, Johana happened upon OYE. While she didn't find what she was looking for, she found just what she needed: the promise of education for her daughters. After a difficult selection process, where we were faced with choosing between bad and worse, we welcomed the sisters to OYE's growing family of scholars in 2016.
Now, two years later, we are excited to share that both sisters have graduated from high school and started university! Due to a grant from the Inter-American Foundation, the sisters are two of twenty young people who have the opportunity to receive a two-year technical degree from the University of San Pedro Sula. While the foundation covers their tuition and administrative costs, you continue to play a crucial role in their education journeys. OYE's monthly scholarship provides the means for our young scholars to travel from El Progreso to San Pedro Sula each day to go to class, and to purchase supplies and textbooks.
We are so grateful for your support and contributions to our work, but we want to ask one more - okay, two more favors from you!
As always, thank you believing in OYE and in the importance of our work to educate, empower and engage teen girls in Honduras.
In appreciation,
Amanda
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