Send Sam to uni to find a cure for breast cancer
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For the past 25 years, the citizens of Eritrea have been living under a totalitarian dictatorship where any able-bodied person is expected to enlist in compulsory, indefinite military service. Those who avoid such service are viewed as political dissidents and are often “disappeared” and tortured in prison.
Sam (personal details changed to protect Sam’s privacy) is an accomplished research scientist from Eritrea. She has published many academic papers, worked at the National Health Laboratory, learned fluent English (she speaks five languages) and attained a degree in Clinical Laboratory Science. She earned the degree, and achieved all this, despite growing up persecuted for her faith and spending her life under threat of enforced military service.
Recently, Sam was forced to finally flee her country and leave behind her life’s work and her family of six in order to stay alive. She received her refugee status in the UK very quickly and has settled in a small city where she wants to continue her biomedical research work to find a cure for breast cancer.
In order to continue her scientific work Sam needs to be credentialed with a UK degree. Her talents mean that she was offered 8 post-graduate university programmes and plans on taking a student loan and using her savings (she has managed to save £3,000 since May already) to cover her food and shelter during her studies, which will cost £8,950 for the course tuition.
This smart, driven young woman overcame unimaginable hardships in order to become a cancer researcher. Purely as a result of where she was born and her faith she had to choose between her own life and her family. She has an opportunity now to carry on her work somewhere safe; any donation is an investment in ambition, in science and in humanity itself. Help to send Sam to university to find a cure for breast cancer.
Sam (personal details changed to protect Sam’s privacy) is an accomplished research scientist from Eritrea. She has published many academic papers, worked at the National Health Laboratory, learned fluent English (she speaks five languages) and attained a degree in Clinical Laboratory Science. She earned the degree, and achieved all this, despite growing up persecuted for her faith and spending her life under threat of enforced military service.
Recently, Sam was forced to finally flee her country and leave behind her life’s work and her family of six in order to stay alive. She received her refugee status in the UK very quickly and has settled in a small city where she wants to continue her biomedical research work to find a cure for breast cancer.
In order to continue her scientific work Sam needs to be credentialed with a UK degree. Her talents mean that she was offered 8 post-graduate university programmes and plans on taking a student loan and using her savings (she has managed to save £3,000 since May already) to cover her food and shelter during her studies, which will cost £8,950 for the course tuition.
This smart, driven young woman overcame unimaginable hardships in order to become a cancer researcher. Purely as a result of where she was born and her faith she had to choose between her own life and her family. She has an opportunity now to carry on her work somewhere safe; any donation is an investment in ambition, in science and in humanity itself. Help to send Sam to university to find a cure for breast cancer.
Organizer
Nina Mohanty
Organizer
England