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Martha-Root has always planned to spend her life serving humanity. She participated in service projects as a child growing up in Cameroon, West Africa. In her early teens, she volunteered with children and youth. From an early age, her long-term goal was to become a medical doctor. Martha-Root has an excellent chance of succeeding as a medical student. She is one of the most determined young people I’ve ever met in my work as a school teacher and youth organizer. She is intellectually gifted and has a tremendous capacity for sustained hard work! I first noticed her strength of character when Martha-Root was twelve years old, and her family hosted me in their humble home in Cameroon. There, Martha-Root took part in carrying water, washing clothes by hand, hauling firewood, preparing meals and growing and processing crops in order to help sustain her family. I saw in her an inner strength and determination which is rare in young Cameroonian women.
Martha-Root’s home region in Cameroon is embroiled in a militant separatist conflict. She had the perseverance to continue attending school--even when separatist soldiers were targeting students--and the excellence to graduate from secondary school two years early.
When her parents began receiving death threats from separatists, a family friend offered to assist Martha-Root in applying to an American community college. Her parents’ income, from work as a baker and a school guidance counselor, is just enough to cover basic needs, including food for nine internally-displaced children, for whom they care. So two American friends agreed to fund Martha-Root’s first year of classes, and then her second year. She graduated from community college as a biology major with a grade-point average of 3.88. Simultaneously, she took advantage of several work-study opportunities. She worked the intervening summer as an intern at a medical lab at Stanford University. She also had an award from the Foothill College Research and Leadership Symposium, and also had a work-study job at the STEM center on the Foothill College campus. On the strength of these successes, University of California, Davis welcomed her as a transfer student in the fall of 2020. She was able to move to Davis and begin her junior year majoring in biological sciences, despite the disruptions of the pandemic. Since arriving in Davis, Martha-Root has taken on multiple volunteer responsibilities working with children in a local neighborhood.
Martha-Root is a young woman of great potential. Many who have met her have found her worthy of their support. Her capacity, commitment, focus and purity of heart give hope to members of her community.
Martha-Root can only continue to study medicine-- to make good on the foundation she has built-- if she receives help. Martha-Root’s tuition, fees and living expenses for THIS academic year alone are $66,000. (As an international student, she is locked into non-Resident tuition brackets.) She has worked and saved since she arrived, and has been able to contribute $4000 toward these expenses. Her search for scholarships has turned up $2,500, and coverage of her textbook fees, so far. A private sponsor and fellow classmate, impressed with her intelligence and drive, is contributing monthly to her tuition. Please help Martha-Root to continue studying, fulfill her potential and make the contribution to humanity that she is capable of making. Her goal is to raise $16,000, in order to complete her junior year at U.C. Davis. Additional funds will be used to help cover bills associated with her senior year.
Martha-Root’s home region in Cameroon is embroiled in a militant separatist conflict. She had the perseverance to continue attending school--even when separatist soldiers were targeting students--and the excellence to graduate from secondary school two years early.
When her parents began receiving death threats from separatists, a family friend offered to assist Martha-Root in applying to an American community college. Her parents’ income, from work as a baker and a school guidance counselor, is just enough to cover basic needs, including food for nine internally-displaced children, for whom they care. So two American friends agreed to fund Martha-Root’s first year of classes, and then her second year. She graduated from community college as a biology major with a grade-point average of 3.88. Simultaneously, she took advantage of several work-study opportunities. She worked the intervening summer as an intern at a medical lab at Stanford University. She also had an award from the Foothill College Research and Leadership Symposium, and also had a work-study job at the STEM center on the Foothill College campus. On the strength of these successes, University of California, Davis welcomed her as a transfer student in the fall of 2020. She was able to move to Davis and begin her junior year majoring in biological sciences, despite the disruptions of the pandemic. Since arriving in Davis, Martha-Root has taken on multiple volunteer responsibilities working with children in a local neighborhood.
Martha-Root is a young woman of great potential. Many who have met her have found her worthy of their support. Her capacity, commitment, focus and purity of heart give hope to members of her community.
Martha-Root can only continue to study medicine-- to make good on the foundation she has built-- if she receives help. Martha-Root’s tuition, fees and living expenses for THIS academic year alone are $66,000. (As an international student, she is locked into non-Resident tuition brackets.) She has worked and saved since she arrived, and has been able to contribute $4000 toward these expenses. Her search for scholarships has turned up $2,500, and coverage of her textbook fees, so far. A private sponsor and fellow classmate, impressed with her intelligence and drive, is contributing monthly to her tuition. Please help Martha-Root to continue studying, fulfill her potential and make the contribution to humanity that she is capable of making. Her goal is to raise $16,000, in order to complete her junior year at U.C. Davis. Additional funds will be used to help cover bills associated with her senior year.
Organizer
Mbah Martha-Root
Organizer
Davis, CA