Please write a personal statement on your resettlement experience to the United States, why you should be selected to receive this scholarship, and how you plan to use this education to give back to your community:
This my story draft since my English is not good I want to be better for my scholarship:
My name is Mmucha sikabwe , but I go by Feza. I grew in refugee camp which is located in east african tanzania . My parents flew from Congo in 1996 due war and the place that was only accepting new regee was tanzania , so They had to start new life there. I was born refugee camp in 1999 life there was different and hard since it was only camp sorten activity was allowed there for example, you cannot buy a car , open big shop of bussiness or travel outsute the camp to camp to camp to another place. we had school and for me that was the only place i would find confort. I studied there until I was 12grade until we were choosen to come to this country ( USA).
I got in cleveland back in 2016 and the resseltment to welcome or accept us was catholics charity until today I will never forgot the name of case manager that was assigned to us (Reed) . he was very nice to us , growing in refugee we did not how to use stove, what of food to put in the fredge and what food to eat and not to eat. he was able to make sure we are confortable to our home.
My sibling and I started school one months after our rival at new commer schoool which at the time was called ( thomas jeffereson) it was change now CALLED Natividad Pagan International Newcomers Academy. like other second learners to new new language english was our second language it was really hard for my sibling and i Fit in school, sometime we will just be scare to go there but we the help of teachers and case manager we started speakimg little by little until we were confortable going to the corners stores by our self.
I graduated high schoool in 2019 and I went straight to college . I started classes there as ESL student for a year and I decided to choose dental hygiene as my manger but due to the waiting list on application I decided to change my major to social work because I wanted to help people. I did a little bit of volunteer at catholic helping new comer to get resources like showing them how to use stove , taking them to groccery and moree. and also I choose social major becuase I’m someone who like to work with people. I currently working as community health worker and my jobbhere is help people get easy access to resources that is around them and also providing them withtranportion to their medical apponment . I want to expand my career to social work I was the grateful the work of catholic that did to my family . my mother was single mother with 4 kids , but she did not a lone because there was poeple behind her to help and ensure that everything was okay. I wanted to do just that .
that girl who grew up in refugee camp will be graduating with assiciate of art and soon tranfer to Cleveland state to get master in social work .
