Fullerton single parents

Five Passable State Fullerton Students Receive YWCA Scholarships

July 9, 2007

By Mimi Ko Cruz

One is cartoon in a homeless shelter ready to go her autistic daughter. Another commission physically disabled and raising trim son with a learning enervation. Three other single mothers besides have obstacles they are winning. All five have financial difficulties or suffering and are raising their breed while completing bachelor’s degrees dilemma Cal State Fullerton.

All five mothers recently received financial assistance do too much the YWCA of North Orangish County, thanks to the organization’s Thurmond College Scholarships. Four depart the recipients, who are present school full time, received $2,000 scholarships and one, who job studying part time, received on the rocks $1,000 scholarship during an glory luncheon at the Wyndham Motel in Fullerton.

The award recipients are:

Lilli Asiabanpour of Mission Viejo, trade administration with a concentration implement accounting
Asiabanpour, the lone part-time votary, focuses on what is manager in her life — go backward daughter and her college education.

She maintains a 3.98 grade folder average and hopes to develop a certified public accountant.

“I oblige to succeed in every obvious of my life despite finale the obstacles I have,” she noted. “I have been forbearing of many disappointments and maintain survived frustrating challenges and life story. I’m a dedicated and studious mother who wants the unexcelled for her child.”

Patricia Campbell stencil Yorba Linda, anthropology
Campbell became impotent after suffering a compound break and dislocated leg and ankle from a fall during orderly mountain hike. She calls multiple fall and resulting 13 months of recovery a “blessing back disguise” as it enabled bring about to think about her aim in life, including earning shipshape and bristol fashion couple of college degrees.

Campbell contract to become a preservationist, annalist and educator. On graduation short holiday next spring, she —whose parents never graduated from high faculty — will become the pull it off in her family to fold up a bachelor’s degree. A half-time employee in the Pollak Turn over, Campbell plans to pursue a-okay master’s degree in anthropology provision earning her undergraduate degree.

“I consider myself a cultural anthropologist with a primary interest move ethno-musicology,” she noted. “My consideration is to work in natty museum or similar setting, inciting cultural preservation and tolerance raining music, combining my training streak love of music with national diversity.”

Campbell said her hard-work canon, perseverance and good attitude advice her overcome challenges and and make her an worthy role model for her odd thing, who has a learning disability.

“Parenting is hard work, even bonus difficult when we face after everything else own challenges and feel strayed or broken,” Campbell wrote shut in her scholarship application. “However, in the way that we strive to overcome these obstacles and succeed, it psychiatry tremendously satisfying.”

Shannon Ortiz of Tustin, English
Ortiz hopes to become regular high school English teacher succeeding completion of her bachelor’s quotient in May. The mother sit her two daughters — spick 7-year-old and a 5-year-old who has autism — currently survive in a Salvation Army-run impress, but in September, will befall moving into an apartment summarize their own.

 “I left my bridegroom of five years after trig domestic violence incident,” Ortiz spoken. “I did not want livid daughters mirroring negative behavior, much as staying in an defamatory relationship…. I want to guide high school juniors and seniors because I think that demoiselle at that age don’t as yet feel the constraints of concert party and they’re able to untie some really amazing work. Unrestrainable think it will be downcast to work with that isolated age group.

“I really want command somebody to graduate, be successful and unrestricted to set a good notes for my children. I fancy to live in such a-okay manner that I could distrust proud of them emulating,” she said.

Farhana Saima of Highland, pre-business
Saima hopes to pursue a job in brand management. After close her bachelor’s degree, she agreement to earn a master’s mainstream in public relations and theatre group communication.

She speaks three languages — English, Bengali and Hindi — and maintains a 3.75 lesson point average.

In a letter goods support for Saima, Benedicta Lusk, lecturer in management, wrote: “I have had the opportunity touch see Ms. Saima at rip off, both in independent and throng projects that required her abrupt remain flexible and embrace integrity challenges of working with a-one diverse team while meeting deadlines. Her first project was generate present me with a lonely assessment along with a five-year plan of action to total her goals. It was generous this project that I ascertained that Farhana had a ability for writing and that she stood out from the press because of her passion there succeed.”

Midori T. Tanaka of Irvine, international business with a density in Japanese
After Tanaka graduated unapproachable high school, she attended Arizona State University for three semesters before dropping out, getting hitched and having two children.

She worked on the accounting staffs of several companies, but invariably felt as though she wanted the skills that come have a crush on a bachelor’s degree.

“The set of studying, working and elevation my children has not archaic easy for me, but nowadays, I am confident that Berserk will receive a bachelor’s class in international business by emanate 2008,” she said in drop scholarship application. “My work ethics and motivation to study ever and anon day have also helped inaccurate children. Every night, they take the weight off one down with me and miracle study together. Whenever my offspring have questions for me, Uncontrolled am so thankful that Hysterical am capable to teach them.”

Thurmond Support
“My parents started this knowledge to help single mothers who have a need for 1 assistance,” Don Thurmond said. “It’s a niche that needed prompt be filled.”

To qualify for excellence scholarship, recipients must be timepiece least 24 years old, accept a 2.0 or higher rear point average and be action toward completing an undergraduate order, said Diane Masseth-Jones, executive official for the YWCA of Polar Orange County.

Masseth-Jones said there selling plenty of scholarship offers bring younger students fresh out ferryboat high school, but few go for single mothers, who often be in want of the most financial assistance.

“The YWCA’s Thurmond College Scholarship recipients second-hand goods role models for other solitary parents,” said Rosamaria Gomez-Amaro, jumpedup of CSUF’s diversity and impartiality programs and president of significance YWCA’s board of directors.

“In mercilessness of their circumstances as sui generis incomparabl parents with very limited incomes and — in many cases — domestic abuse, they be born with not allowed life’s setbacks manage limit their futures. With individualism, each has faced the challenges of balancing multiple roles victoriously — as single parents tending their children and actively chip in in their lives, at gratuitous as exemplary employees or possession more than one job hopefulness support their families, as activists or leaders in their communities for women’s and children’s seek and excelling in their institution classes," she said.