August 25, 2010
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AKMSF Scholarship Winners 2010 Announced
The Akash Kuruvilla Memorial Scholarship Fund Selection Committee congratulates Magdalene Ayuk and Emmanuel Lopez on being selected as the recipients of the 2010 Akash Kuruvilla Memorial Scholarship.
Magdalene Ayuk will be attending Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in the Fall. In addition to being a wife and mother of a three year old daughter, Magdalene has demonstrated fortitude and determination in her pursuit of becoming a public health nurse in an underserved community. Through various volunteer opportunities and membership in Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society, Magdalene has developed crucial leadership skills and understands the value of giving back. As founder and coordinator of her campus’s Cross Cultural Conversation, a one hour weekly forum that promotes and encourages intercultural interaction, she facilitated conversations surrounding diversity. Magdalene says that “As a woman, these opportunities successes and honors would not have been possible back in my native country (Cameroon). It is the American spirit that hard work be rewarded and recognized for each person that to me defines the American Dream.”.
Click Here to read her Personal Statement & Application Essay
Emmanual Lopez was raised by a single mother of two, and despite many obstacles, he will be attending Texas Tech University in the fall. Personal experiences and inspiration from the sacrifices that his mother made fuel his dream of one day becoming a pediatrician. He hopes to bring his medical skills to third world countries to provide necessary medical attention to children. As an immigrant activist, Emmanuel works tirelessly to promote and inform people about the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act through social networks, and his volunteer work in hospitals, Habitat for Humanity and around the city of Dallas have helped him gain useful skills that will carry him to success in the future. In reference to the American Dream, Emmanuel cites the “sweat, blood and tears” that his mother and many others endure to have a chance of a better life. However, he also believes that he was “brought to the United States to pursue the American Dream by taking every opportunity and using his sweat, blood and tears to become the best he can be.”
Click Here to read the Application Essay
Click Here to read his Personal Statement
Congratulations and best wishes to our 2010 AKMSF Scholars! We would like to thank everyone who applied for our 2010 award and encourage everyone to be on the lookout for more information regarding our 2011 scholarship.
adam odomore said on May 11, 2011
I love this site, because you give us the minority and the immigrant an oppurtunity to be better persons, people who are successful and credential. In our native lands this wouldn’t have been possible. Our dreams would die with us; but I want to say thank you for your generosity the AKMSF THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF ALL THE IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE AND ARE GOING TO ACHIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM.