Stories of Success
Below you will find accounts written by our graduates in response to a questionnaire sent out in 2020.
Karla Membreño
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What did you study, year of graduation, and in which university? Physiotherapy, generation 2010, UNAN Managua What is your current job? I am self-employed as a physical therapist and masseuse. Are you doing any volunteer service currently? I like doing social service because it is a way to give back what I received. I also think that it is a way of showing gratitude to the Fundación. Currently I am the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Fundación A. Jean Brugger, a volunteer position. What impact did having a scholarship from FAJB have on your life? I felt a mixture of feelings receiving the positive news, I remember crying with joy because it was what I needed to go to university, my parents wanted me to study but we had no economic resources. |
What is the most important thing you learned during your time with FAJB?
The meaning of being grateful; the scholarship was a real blessing for me. Being in the different activities taught me to work as a team with people with different characters and spirits, among other things. Today they are pleasurable memories, and I'm glad to know that we were a great team.
What are your dreams?
My dreams were to start a studio but given the different crises that the country has gone through, I couldn't. I also dream of studying bioanalysis or pharmacy, I love both of them.
How important is having a university title to achieving your goals?
The important thing about having a degree is having credibility, better salary and being preferred by clients.
Are you married, do you have children?
I am married and have 2 girls, Georgina 12 and Isabella of 4.
The meaning of being grateful; the scholarship was a real blessing for me. Being in the different activities taught me to work as a team with people with different characters and spirits, among other things. Today they are pleasurable memories, and I'm glad to know that we were a great team.
What are your dreams?
My dreams were to start a studio but given the different crises that the country has gone through, I couldn't. I also dream of studying bioanalysis or pharmacy, I love both of them.
How important is having a university title to achieving your goals?
The important thing about having a degree is having credibility, better salary and being preferred by clients.
Are you married, do you have children?
I am married and have 2 girls, Georgina 12 and Isabella of 4.
Yarisleidy Mariana Cortez Mayorquin
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What did you study, year of graduation, and in which university?
Business Administration, 2013, Upoli Rivas What is your current job? Director of Community Development, Comunidad Connect, Jinotega What are your dreams? I have many dreams. On a professional level, I want to continue to educate myself in the social area, working on social projects. It is difficult to pay for a postgraduate or master's degree in community development/social management but it is never too late, they say. I hope that one day the economy will create more opportunities to save money or to do "something else." |
What impact did having a scholarship from FAJB have on your life?
Because of my excellent high school grades, I received scholarship offers from MINED, but I had the opportunity to apply for the Fundación. Receiving the news that I had been selected was very gratifying. From the first day, meeting the people who were supporting my future and, now, being part of their families, fills me with eternal gratitude. Without a doubt the experience marked my social work today.
What is the most important thing you learned during your time with FAJB?
The most important and relevant thing has been participation in community service activities. I learned that community service strengthens the solidarity and goodness that we all have. It frames the way we view our careers and the way we cope with challenges. As scholarship students we learn the value of things once again.
How important is having a university title to achieving your goals?
My university degree is making a difference in our societty’s challenges and opportunities. Education is the inheritance that our parents leave us, and to be educated and to fulfill goals with the help of others is a great achievement for those of us who believe that education eliminates obstacles.
Are you married, do you have children?
I am single, without children.
Because of my excellent high school grades, I received scholarship offers from MINED, but I had the opportunity to apply for the Fundación. Receiving the news that I had been selected was very gratifying. From the first day, meeting the people who were supporting my future and, now, being part of their families, fills me with eternal gratitude. Without a doubt the experience marked my social work today.
What is the most important thing you learned during your time with FAJB?
The most important and relevant thing has been participation in community service activities. I learned that community service strengthens the solidarity and goodness that we all have. It frames the way we view our careers and the way we cope with challenges. As scholarship students we learn the value of things once again.
How important is having a university title to achieving your goals?
My university degree is making a difference in our societty’s challenges and opportunities. Education is the inheritance that our parents leave us, and to be educated and to fulfill goals with the help of others is a great achievement for those of us who believe that education eliminates obstacles.
Are you married, do you have children?
I am single, without children.
Luis Fernando Yescas García
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What did you study, year of graduation, and in which university? In 2013 I started studying Environmental Engineering at the Central American University. Although the classes were demanding, I felt that I could give more and in 2014 I also enrolled in the Law School at UNAN Managua. I received my university degrees in both Environmental Engineering and Law in the same year, 2018. |
What is your current job?
I developed my professional practices in the Molecular Biology Center of UNAN Managua, RURMA campus, where I carried out my monographic research entitled “Phytoremediating Potential associated with a bacterial isolate Phragmites Australis for the treatment of hexavalent chromium in aqueous medium." After the culmination of my studies, I continued working in said laboratory for approximately one more year, mainly in the biochemistry and proximal areas, with rotations in plant tissue culture, microbiology and plant DNA. Additionally, I worked at the Center for Understanding with Nature (CEN) as the technical representative for residents affected by industrial activities and in environmental restoration activities. Subsequently, I got a job with better remuneration in the National Water Authority (ANA). My initial position was Specialist in Water Resources, later I was promoted to Responsible for Control and Monitoring of Concessionary Rights and later I was appointed Director of the National Public Registry of Rights of Water (RPNDA). I am also a member of the Technical Committee for Standardization of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce (MIFIC) in water matters as representative of ANA.
What are your dreams?
May my family live comfortably. I don't want to be a millionaire, I don't find success in money, but in doing what I like. I want my nephew to be happy and lack nothing, but also to be aware of the value of things and the meaning of his efforts. I am still young and I have not achieved everything, but I hope that my parents are presented with enough life to be able to enjoy the comforts that one day I hope to provide them, since they have not done anything in life but work tirelessly for my sister and for me, so that we can have a better life than the one they had, a life that I also hope to share with them. In the professional field, I want to become a doctor in biotechnology with a focus on environmental quality or ecology, and dedicate myself to improving the environmental conditions of sites affected by human action. I do not see myself for the rest of my life working in administrative procedures or for-profit consulting, I can do more than that.
What impact did having a scholarship from FAJB have on your life?
My family did not have the possibility of sending me to study at one of the best universities in Central America. The Fundación A. Jean Brugger scholarship provided me with the ability to achieve my academic goals and, above all, it taught me to value education and to give back the knowledge I have acquired to my community. That community badly needs professionals with technical skills, but above all, needs professionals with common sense, values, ethics, and morals to achieve sustainable development.
What is the most important thing you learned during your time with FAJB?
To value opportunities, this implies many things; love what you do and find the meaning of your efforts and anxious moments; at the end of the story they are part of your experience and form who you are.
How important is having a university title to achieving your goals?
The university degree is very important, however, people should see beyond the paper it’s printed on, see all the effort that went into it. I could well obtain a degree and say that I went through the university, but the university may not have gone through me; in other words, the experience and dedication that we put into each job or assignment is worth more, it is worth being foolish and even annoying because that reflects passion. I know that Fundación A. Jean Brugger has been wise in choosing its scholarship students, because I am sure that none of them have gone after just a degree, but after knowledge and in search of their dreams.
Are you married, do you have children?
I am not married or have any biological children, but I am raising my nephew as my own child, including food and recreational expenses
I developed my professional practices in the Molecular Biology Center of UNAN Managua, RURMA campus, where I carried out my monographic research entitled “Phytoremediating Potential associated with a bacterial isolate Phragmites Australis for the treatment of hexavalent chromium in aqueous medium." After the culmination of my studies, I continued working in said laboratory for approximately one more year, mainly in the biochemistry and proximal areas, with rotations in plant tissue culture, microbiology and plant DNA. Additionally, I worked at the Center for Understanding with Nature (CEN) as the technical representative for residents affected by industrial activities and in environmental restoration activities. Subsequently, I got a job with better remuneration in the National Water Authority (ANA). My initial position was Specialist in Water Resources, later I was promoted to Responsible for Control and Monitoring of Concessionary Rights and later I was appointed Director of the National Public Registry of Rights of Water (RPNDA). I am also a member of the Technical Committee for Standardization of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce (MIFIC) in water matters as representative of ANA.
What are your dreams?
May my family live comfortably. I don't want to be a millionaire, I don't find success in money, but in doing what I like. I want my nephew to be happy and lack nothing, but also to be aware of the value of things and the meaning of his efforts. I am still young and I have not achieved everything, but I hope that my parents are presented with enough life to be able to enjoy the comforts that one day I hope to provide them, since they have not done anything in life but work tirelessly for my sister and for me, so that we can have a better life than the one they had, a life that I also hope to share with them. In the professional field, I want to become a doctor in biotechnology with a focus on environmental quality or ecology, and dedicate myself to improving the environmental conditions of sites affected by human action. I do not see myself for the rest of my life working in administrative procedures or for-profit consulting, I can do more than that.
What impact did having a scholarship from FAJB have on your life?
My family did not have the possibility of sending me to study at one of the best universities in Central America. The Fundación A. Jean Brugger scholarship provided me with the ability to achieve my academic goals and, above all, it taught me to value education and to give back the knowledge I have acquired to my community. That community badly needs professionals with technical skills, but above all, needs professionals with common sense, values, ethics, and morals to achieve sustainable development.
What is the most important thing you learned during your time with FAJB?
To value opportunities, this implies many things; love what you do and find the meaning of your efforts and anxious moments; at the end of the story they are part of your experience and form who you are.
How important is having a university title to achieving your goals?
The university degree is very important, however, people should see beyond the paper it’s printed on, see all the effort that went into it. I could well obtain a degree and say that I went through the university, but the university may not have gone through me; in other words, the experience and dedication that we put into each job or assignment is worth more, it is worth being foolish and even annoying because that reflects passion. I know that Fundación A. Jean Brugger has been wise in choosing its scholarship students, because I am sure that none of them have gone after just a degree, but after knowledge and in search of their dreams.
Are you married, do you have children?
I am not married or have any biological children, but I am raising my nephew as my own child, including food and recreational expenses