Earlier this year, Fr. Dean Brackley and I started working on a strategy to raise money for the UCA Martyrs Scholarship Program, which he founded to help very bright and talented students from extremely poor families attain their dream of a college education. Given the difficult economic situation in El Salvador and in the U.S., donations to the scholarship program have declined significantly in the last year and Fr. Dean was struggling to continue to provide support for the approximately 50 current scholarship recipients. As a response, we developed the idea for this newsletter, to let others know of the amazing young people the scholarship program supports and to encourage potential donors to give. Thanks to the hard work of a former scholarship recipient Clara Villatoro, who designed the newsletter, we are proud to send you the first installment of the UCA Martyrs Scholarship Program Newsletter.
Even in the last few months, when Fr. Dean’s energy has been sapped by chemotherapy, he found the time to email me about this newsletter and asked me send it out to as many friends and supporters as possible. So, I’m sure I speak for him when I say that we hope you will be inspired by the student’s stories and their commitment to go to college and create a better life for themselves, their family and serve their community. I also ask each of you to please forward this email and newsletter to your friends, families, and networks so that others can learn about this truly life changing program that is making a big difference in developing El Salvador’s future leaders.
Finally, I urge to PLEASE give. The total cost of one year of college for a scholarship student is only $1100 (thanks to a subsidized tuition rate provided by the UCA). Please consider pooling your resources with family, friends, co-workers, or church members to support one student throughout their college career or you can give an individual donation, every dollar makes a big difference!
With regards,
Haydee Diaz
Ps. Please feel free to send me any questions or comments about giving to the scholarship fund or the newsletter athaydee_diaz@hotmail.com
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