When asked what qualified me for the UNC Consolidated Scholarship, I suddenly thought back to when I was a kid; I wanted to do something important. I wanted to be the difference I so much desperately needed as a child. My mother passed away in 2009, leaving three children and a grandson behind. Due to neither of my sisters being over eighteen and all my relatives declined when asked to take us in, we were then introduced to foster care. While in foster care I was verbally abused and emotionally broken, I was constantly told I would never succeed in anything with others including my foster parent. Soon after, my Aunt had adopted all of my siblings and we moved in with her where I was accepted to attend an early college program at a local community …show more content…
The triple bottom line for the organization is to provide youth with social, environmental, and economical skills. The YABC, helped me make friends while also allowing me to a helping hand in my community. Being active in my community allowed me to receive gratitude from such a great group of people, for the first time in my life and they pushed to do my best, so that’s what I did. Now, for the past two years I have been the coordinator and president for the organization. This year, I graduated with honors with both Associate degrees in Fine Arts and a High school diploma, at just the age of eighteen. Finally, I proved to so many people, as well as myself, that I am great, resilient and that with the abundance of potential I have, nothing will stop me from following my dream and succeeding. Clearly, now I know the sky is not the limit and I will constantly beat all odds. With that being said, I believe without a doubt that my past, and all that I have overcome qualifies me for the UNC Consolidated scholarship. All in all, I constantly push myself to succeed and I deserve to receive this scholarship so that I can continue to peruse my dreams to be a psychologist and be a difference in another person’s life, similar to what the YABC had done for