Lets Keep Hope Lynn in College

19 years ago my heart burst with joy the day my niece was born. Hope Lynn was the most beautiful child I had ever seen. From that day our family made a promise to help care for her and shower her with all our love. That is why we are struggling to get her the dreams she has set for
herself.

Hope Lynn grew up a little quicker than most, her father became absent from her life around age 4. This left Hope Lynn with her new baby brother and a single mom. But she helped her Mom out as much as any child in that situation can. She worked very hard at school. She was a member of the Girls Swim Team and JROTC . Her grades showed that she was always hard at study. She got a job at 14 working at Arby's and helped with the household finances and chores. 

She suffered a serious tragedy when her best friend died at the tender age of 14. She went thru a lot of grief and struggled with a type of PTSD. Hope Lynn and her mom joined a therapy group and continue to work thru the process of recovering from that loss. Hope also joined the VFW Auxiliary being the granddaughter, great granddaughter and great great granddaughter of a veteran. By the age of 16 she developed a wish/want to help Veterans and people suffering from PTSD and related traumas. She also found out thru the efforts of the Family Tree that she is the direct descent of the Stewarts and Blankenships who came here during the Virginia Company under Richard Hudson and that she had a direct link with the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Through all this she has kept a job at Arby's, did volunteer work with the VFW Auxiliary, continued her JROTC as Commander of the Armed Drill and was also Public Affairs officer (S-5),  attended her group therapy, member of the Varsity Swim Team and kept her GPA high at school. She decided just before graduation to go to the University of Kentucky and obtain the necessary education to follow her dream of helping Veterans and people suffering from PTSD and other traumas. 

So why University of Kentucky? Simple, they are ranked as one of the top colleges for the education she needs to obtain her goals. Hard to argue with someone who sets their goals at the best. After all she graduated from John Glenn HS with Honors just missing cum laude by a
fraction of a GPA point.

Hope started at University of Kentucky last year, and had a great freshman year. Thru her family, federal grants and scholarships, working hard at her job and continue to focus on her study has made it to year 2. Here starts her sophomore year with struggles and goals clearly in focus and a commitment to achieve here dream, she fights on. With all the grants, loans, job salary and family money applied we are falling short a total of $20,000.00. Tuition will take up $11,000.00, Room and Board $7,000.00 leaving $2,000.00 for books and supplies.

So I reach out to anyone to help keep this very smart, beautiful, ambitious and goal determined young woman in school and working towards her education. Hope Lynn maintains her job at Arby's just off Campus and has risen to Shift Manager. She has a big target on her goals and is eager and ambitious to get to her dream. All of Hope Lynn's family and friends find it hard to think that money is the only obstacle to her changing the lives of everyone she helps. Please give as much as you can. 
 
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.