Help Laura to finish her propaedeutic year
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Hoi allemaal! My name is Laura Murillo, I am 24 years old and I am a international student from Colombia. I arrived to the Netherlands in August 2019 through a cultural exchange and at the end of it I won a scholarship to start my undergraduate studies in Teacher Education in Spanish at Hogeschool Utrecht.
The scholarship news was both a blessing and a great joy for me, as it allowed me to pursue my dream of becoming a Spanish teacher in the Netherlands. However, this scholarship only covered a portion of the overall tuition (8547 euros), which is the institutional fee charged to international students who are not EU nationals. I'm just two months away from completing my first year of study and receiving my propaedeutic diploma, and I just need this extra push to get there.
My dream has always been to study at college and graduate as a teacher, besides being the first person in my family to go to university, since due to the lack of economic resources this is a dream that nobody in my family has been able to achieve. Since I was a little girl, I use to pretend that I was a teacher, I taught from my baby dolls to the visitors that came home. My ambition at the end of this career is to become a professor in the Netherlands, gain experience working in this wonderful country, and then work to develop education in Colombia, where millions of young people, like me, want to succeed. I have a lot of projects and ideas in mind to help with educational growth.
I am currently working on student jobs, attending full-time classes, and doing an internship, and during the weekends I do different extra jobs like cleaning and babysitting, saving everything I can to put into my education. Nonetheless, I've found that I will need some additional financial support. Because my family back home does not have enough money to support me, particularly given Colombia's current crisis, and as I am not an EU citizen I can not receive any loan from DUO. As a result, any contribution, no matter how small, will be gratefully accepted, and I will genuinely appreciate it.
I have put in a lot of effort to get to where I am now, and I have received excellent grades this year as a result of my hard work. I need only 2800 euros to cover the rest of my tuition fee, finish my propaedeutic year in mid-June, and receive a diploma that will help me to continue to progress and grow professionally and as a person.
Thank you very much for reading and your support!
The scholarship news was both a blessing and a great joy for me, as it allowed me to pursue my dream of becoming a Spanish teacher in the Netherlands. However, this scholarship only covered a portion of the overall tuition (8547 euros), which is the institutional fee charged to international students who are not EU nationals. I'm just two months away from completing my first year of study and receiving my propaedeutic diploma, and I just need this extra push to get there.
My dream has always been to study at college and graduate as a teacher, besides being the first person in my family to go to university, since due to the lack of economic resources this is a dream that nobody in my family has been able to achieve. Since I was a little girl, I use to pretend that I was a teacher, I taught from my baby dolls to the visitors that came home. My ambition at the end of this career is to become a professor in the Netherlands, gain experience working in this wonderful country, and then work to develop education in Colombia, where millions of young people, like me, want to succeed. I have a lot of projects and ideas in mind to help with educational growth.
I am currently working on student jobs, attending full-time classes, and doing an internship, and during the weekends I do different extra jobs like cleaning and babysitting, saving everything I can to put into my education. Nonetheless, I've found that I will need some additional financial support. Because my family back home does not have enough money to support me, particularly given Colombia's current crisis, and as I am not an EU citizen I can not receive any loan from DUO. As a result, any contribution, no matter how small, will be gratefully accepted, and I will genuinely appreciate it.
I have put in a lot of effort to get to where I am now, and I have received excellent grades this year as a result of my hard work. I need only 2800 euros to cover the rest of my tuition fee, finish my propaedeutic year in mid-June, and receive a diploma that will help me to continue to progress and grow professionally and as a person.
Thank you very much for reading and your support!
Organizer
Laura Kim
Organizer
Amsterdam
