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My name is Karen Zamora Orellana and I would like to ask for your help to overcome a financial hurdle that stands in my way to becoming a university graduate.
I first came to the United States as an au pair in 2014; the first time I had travelled to another country without my family. I landed on my feet. I became a live-in nanny for a family in Oakland - the McCarthys - and was able to study part-time at Merritt College in the evening and whenever I could find time during the day.
After two years, my au pair visa was due to expire but I wanted to finish my degree so I petitioned to become a full-time international student - and I was accepted! The McCarthys offered to sponsor me and I was able to meet the costs of international school fees as well as my cost of living over the course of the year.
It was hard work but thanks to my sponsorship and to my church over the past two years I have been able to complete all the requirements to transfer, while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. I will be graduating this year with an AA in Business Administration.
I have now set my sights higher and I am applying to become an international student at Cal State East Bay to fulfil my dream of becoming a graduate with a US Bachelor’s Degree. I will be the first in my family to continue my education outside of El Salvador.
While in California, I have had a life-changing encounter with God and I want to be able to use my degree and my closeness with God to help and bless others in other countries in the way that I was helped when I came here. I want to give back. And by improving myself, put myself on a path to help others. But I have hit a hurdle in that process and that is why I am asking for help.
Not only am I not allowed to earn money through work while undertaking this full-time degree but I have to prove that I am able to pay the full amount of tuition upfront before I am allowed to enroll. I don’t have the funds and so I am reaching out to you all to ask for help.
I know that everybody struggles with their finances and that there are many other uses you can put your money to but I would ask you to consider investing in the future of a young, driven Latina and I promise I will pay that investment forward with interest to others when I graduate and for the rest of my life.
My name is Karen Zamora Orellana and I would like to ask for your help to overcome a financial hurdle that stands in my way to becoming a university graduate.
I first came to the United States as an au pair in 2014; the first time I had travelled to another country without my family. I landed on my feet. I became a live-in nanny for a family in Oakland - the McCarthys - and was able to study part-time at Merritt College in the evening and whenever I could find time during the day.
After two years, my au pair visa was due to expire but I wanted to finish my degree so I petitioned to become a full-time international student - and I was accepted! The McCarthys offered to sponsor me and I was able to meet the costs of international school fees as well as my cost of living over the course of the year.
It was hard work but thanks to my sponsorship and to my church over the past two years I have been able to complete all the requirements to transfer, while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. I will be graduating this year with an AA in Business Administration.
I have now set my sights higher and I am applying to become an international student at Cal State East Bay to fulfil my dream of becoming a graduate with a US Bachelor’s Degree. I will be the first in my family to continue my education outside of El Salvador.
While in California, I have had a life-changing encounter with God and I want to be able to use my degree and my closeness with God to help and bless others in other countries in the way that I was helped when I came here. I want to give back. And by improving myself, put myself on a path to help others. But I have hit a hurdle in that process and that is why I am asking for help.
Not only am I not allowed to earn money through work while undertaking this full-time degree but I have to prove that I am able to pay the full amount of tuition upfront before I am allowed to enroll. I don’t have the funds and so I am reaching out to you all to ask for help.
I know that everybody struggles with their finances and that there are many other uses you can put your money to but I would ask you to consider investing in the future of a young, driven Latina and I promise I will pay that investment forward with interest to others when I graduate and for the rest of my life.
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Karen Zamora
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Oakland, CA