By Guldal Ebeoglu | Project Division
Dear friends,
We are happy and proud to announce that two thousand of our scholarship girls graduated in June 2019 and 400 of them will be continuing on to university. These 400 girls will be supported by our university scholarship project.
This year we aim to give a minimum of 2000 new scholarships to girls from disadvantaged families. We will start accepting scholarship applications in September and this year the scholarship amount is determined as 1400 TL (280$) to be paid in two installments in November and March.
Let's hear Ruken, one of our scholarship students who now continues to university :
"Hi I'm Ruken.I'm from Van. I lost my father when I was a few months old.It is hard to be a woman in the East.It was even harder to be without a father.I was aware that my only weapon to save myself was education. I went to clean houses with my mother, worked in the fields.Doing all this I observed people around me, in fact I observed myself.I did not want to lead a life like this. I wanted to improve myself intellectually and not work in jobs which only required physical effort. I had a lot of hardship to come to this point in my life. Hardships in my life are not yet over.I strive to exist and hope to be useful to the society I was born into with the profession I will study. I hope society will also continue to support my efforts.."
There are so many more Rukens who need our support. We hope to reach out to them with your support. More girls need to go on to high school and then to university for us to get closer to our ultimate goal of gender equality and a contemporary society..
Thank you for being with us..
Best regards,
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By Guldal Ebeoglu | Project Division
By Guldal Ebeoglu | Project Division
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