Your Chance To Learn From A Sponsored Child
Read to the end to find out how you can ask Rosmery a question about life as a sponsored child.
By Paul Elliston, Regional Portfolio Manager
I’ve been working with communities across Latin America and the Caribbean for the last 6 years, ensuring that all the programmes and projects we fund in the region are working well and meeting the needs of the region’s vulnerable children.
Each year in Bolivia, one of the countries where World Vision UK offers sponsorship, an Italian foundation runs the Preciosa-Erasmus Mundus scholarship programme, that permits a small handful of carefully selected young people to study in Europe.
While these scholarships are open to anyone, World Vision took the initiative to present a small number of potential scholars for entry. At the end of the selection process, three children have been given the opportunities to study in Italy.
“[This] is a scholarship that gives students with great results the opportunity to study abroad,” the National Director of World Vision Bolivia told me. “I believe that this is a reason to celebrate, since it is a full scholarship. We hope that this scholarship programme will grow.”
One of these students is Rosmery Nicolas Roque, who has led one of the youth networks in remote and rural Tacopaya ADP for many years. Opportunities for youth in this area are severely limited and most youth from this area must either move to the city in search of work or training or they remain in their communities, marrying and working in subsistence agriculture.
It is a credit both to Rosmery’s hard work and dedication and the efforts World Vision have made over the years to improve the education system she experienced, that she has been granted this amazing opportunity.
Following a short preparatory course in Italian, she is now studying nursing, obstetrics and physiotherapy in Padova and will spend a total of 34 months in Italy completing her degree.
We’re really excited that Rosmery has agreed to speak to you, our supporters and sponsors, about her story and how she has achieved what she has. This is an unique opportunity for you to ask a child from one of our ADPs any questions you like about her experience and her hopes and dreams for the future.
Submit your questions by email or through our Facebook page no later than Tuesday 4th February and we’ll share the whole Q&A with you right here on Thursday 13th February.
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