Janelle
Porter
For many people, choosing a career is difficult. For me, it was quite the opposite. When I started ninth grade, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. While my mother went through chemotherapy, she was very sick and unable to work, which put a strain on our household, financially and emotionally.
I decided then that I would become a doctor and work in a hospital where low income families are treated. I want to contribute to the lives of others to the best of my ability. I want to show the youth that the things surrounding them are not the things that determine how far they can go in the future. Financially, I am disadvantaged, but I am motivated to make things change through my education.
It was this essay that earned Janelle a MOSTE 2004 Achievement Scholarship. But, it was the enduring drive of this incredible young lady that took her from Audobon Middle School to Occidental College, where she is a freshman majoring in Psychobiology.
R. Woodward Story
For many people, choosing a career is difficult. For me, it was quite the opposite. When I started ninth grade, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. While my mother went through chemotherapy, she was very sick and unable to work, which put a strain on our household, financially and emotionally.
I decided then that I would become a doctor and work in a hospital where low income families are treated. I want to contribute to the lives of others to the best of my ability. I want to show the youth that the things surrounding them are not the things that determine how far they can go in the future. Financially, I am disadvantaged, but I am motivated to make things change through my education.
It was this essay that earned Janelle a MOSTE 2004 Achievement Scholarship. But, it was the enduring drive of this incredible young lady that took her from Audobon Middle School to Occidental College, where she is a freshman majoring in Psychobiology.
R. Woodward Story
Mentoring offers many benefits to youth, including, improving self-esteem, keeping young people in school,
helping improve academic skills and leading young people to resources they might not find on their own.
(National Mentoring Partnership)
helping improve academic skills and leading young people to resources they might not find on their own.
(National Mentoring Partnership)
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