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Anika Fabiana Gutiérrez Alegría
Psychology Scholarship annual cost: $2120 |
Anika lives in the rural community of Monte Cristo de Ostional, approximately 38 km from San Juan del Sur. She lives with her mother and her younger brother (12 years old). Her mother is a feisty woman who sells chickens, nacatamales, churros and fried plaintains; this is the sole income of the household. It has been very difficult for Anika's mother to sustain her professional studies, however she continues to sacrifice and persevere to achieve the dream of every mother of seeing her daughter succeed professionally.
Anika finished her secondary studies in 2019 at the Instituto Enmanuel Mongalo y Rubio in San Juan del Sur. Her favorite classes were: history, chemistry and geography. She has been a very persevering young woman with great desires for improvement, optimism, and hope in obtaining what she wants. She has faced multiple limitations such as: the distance from her home to an educational center, educational deficiency in rural areas, family difficulties, economic limitations, etc. But she has not allowed these obstacles to stop her from obtaining her educational goals.
In 2020 she managed to begin the first year of the career she has dreamed of. She is studying Psychology in the Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in the city of León. Anika has the conviction that a career in psychology is right for her because she has had a difficult family experience. This prompted her to choose psychology not only to overcome the consequences of her own experience, but also to learn the scientific explanations of human actions and to serve by helping to transform negative realities of personal and family situations in her community and society in general.
Anika is characterized by being a young woman with patience, perseverance and solidarity, with a high sense of social sensitivity, sincere and with a spirit of improvement. She has served as a volunteer in an environmental protection campaign. With the university she has participated in giving talks on sexual reproductive health in educational centers in León. In her spare time, she enjoys reading academic books on her professional career. Her short-term goal is to finish her second semester with high qualifications and in the long-term, to successfully finish her professional career, and work in a non-profit organization.
Anika finished her secondary studies in 2019 at the Instituto Enmanuel Mongalo y Rubio in San Juan del Sur. Her favorite classes were: history, chemistry and geography. She has been a very persevering young woman with great desires for improvement, optimism, and hope in obtaining what she wants. She has faced multiple limitations such as: the distance from her home to an educational center, educational deficiency in rural areas, family difficulties, economic limitations, etc. But she has not allowed these obstacles to stop her from obtaining her educational goals.
In 2020 she managed to begin the first year of the career she has dreamed of. She is studying Psychology in the Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in the city of León. Anika has the conviction that a career in psychology is right for her because she has had a difficult family experience. This prompted her to choose psychology not only to overcome the consequences of her own experience, but also to learn the scientific explanations of human actions and to serve by helping to transform negative realities of personal and family situations in her community and society in general.
Anika is characterized by being a young woman with patience, perseverance and solidarity, with a high sense of social sensitivity, sincere and with a spirit of improvement. She has served as a volunteer in an environmental protection campaign. With the university she has participated in giving talks on sexual reproductive health in educational centers in León. In her spare time, she enjoys reading academic books on her professional career. Her short-term goal is to finish her second semester with high qualifications and in the long-term, to successfully finish her professional career, and work in a non-profit organization.