Being away from home, working overseas, and practically having stayed away from the strains of provincial life and existence, one could barely relate, if at all, to the strife and hardships that folks regularly go through as a matter of course. But through the contact made by our field team of SAS Ai scholarship interviewers, we can get some sense of exactly what kind of challenges poor families back home face.
Take this family of 10. A father, mother and eight children. The father works at a bakery run by a relative. He does not draw any wages. He gets paid when the pan de sal sells, or the pan de limon is all sold - a mere pittance, nothing regular. The mother is a homemaker. She does a couple of loads of laundry for the towns folk twice a week. Whatever she makes goes to the kitty to buy rice and staples eaten for the day. The four eldest kids work at a fast food chain and in the open market, their combined wages contributed to the family coffers and again used primarily for food.
The seventh child shows great promise. She had been the one sent to school and she has just graduated from sixth grade as the first pupil to score the highest in her class. She is the valedictorian and class president. This girl shows all the necessary attributes of an excellent student, a promising leader, and a successful academic. Her parents are willing to scrimp and scratch, claw and dig to get her to continue her studies through high school. She is a shoo-in to the Public high school system but desires very much to attend St Augustine School for her secondary education.
Our Field Team of interviewers conversed with this young lady since she was highly recommended by her principal as a viable candidate for a SAS Ai scholarship. All our SAS Ai personnel were amazed and pleasantly surprised at how skillfully this young girl represented herself and her ambitions, her dreams and aspirations while being interviewed. She wrote an essay that clearly showed she had the academic preparation to be successful at SAS. The field team gave her a three star rating, which is the highest rating given to all interviewees.
Judging from the family circumstances, you would not have expected dedication such as this coming from a girl who was so young and disadvantaged. What a wonderful find and a great revelation. We are so proud we were able to find her and to offer her a scholarship package.
Take this family of 10. A father, mother and eight children. The father works at a bakery run by a relative. He does not draw any wages. He gets paid when the pan de sal sells, or the pan de limon is all sold - a mere pittance, nothing regular. The mother is a homemaker. She does a couple of loads of laundry for the towns folk twice a week. Whatever she makes goes to the kitty to buy rice and staples eaten for the day. The four eldest kids work at a fast food chain and in the open market, their combined wages contributed to the family coffers and again used primarily for food.
The seventh child shows great promise. She had been the one sent to school and she has just graduated from sixth grade as the first pupil to score the highest in her class. She is the valedictorian and class president. This girl shows all the necessary attributes of an excellent student, a promising leader, and a successful academic. Her parents are willing to scrimp and scratch, claw and dig to get her to continue her studies through high school. She is a shoo-in to the Public high school system but desires very much to attend St Augustine School for her secondary education.
Our Field Team of interviewers conversed with this young lady since she was highly recommended by her principal as a viable candidate for a SAS Ai scholarship. All our SAS Ai personnel were amazed and pleasantly surprised at how skillfully this young girl represented herself and her ambitions, her dreams and aspirations while being interviewed. She wrote an essay that clearly showed she had the academic preparation to be successful at SAS. The field team gave her a three star rating, which is the highest rating given to all interviewees.
Judging from the family circumstances, you would not have expected dedication such as this coming from a girl who was so young and disadvantaged. What a wonderful find and a great revelation. We are so proud we were able to find her and to offer her a scholarship package.
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