Help bring Wiktoria to MIT Innovation Bootcamp

Hello!

My name is Roni, and I am a friend of Wiktoria from UCR, which is part of Utrecht University, where we study. Aside from being my friend, she is truly an inspirational and ambitious person who has a unique ability to make profound changes. Throughout the past few years, Wiktoria has been involved in making an impact around the world. She has done amazing humanitarian work and especially is trying to get attention towards the refugee crisis. During her gap year, she has been living and volunteering in Spain and Jordan to get a different insight into the refugee and migrants' situation and truly hear and listen to people's experiences while participating and facilitating entrepreneurial workshops for women, teaching English, or participating in Cultural Cafe initiative to promote dialogue about diversity.

Moreover, she received a scholarship to study in a competitive program at Watson Institute Fall Semester Venture Accelerator in Colorado (15% of acceptance rate) for 4 months to learn about branding, grant writing, project management, and many others while implementing startup with a friend from Kenya.

 

Besides that, she is doing an amazing job while being a mentor in Poland where she is from; in the organization, Zwolnieni z Teorii were already for 3rd edition she is helping young people implement social projects to change their surroundings and make an impact.

 

Furthermore, while still being in high school, she has been chosen as one of 25 scholars in the Academy of Leaders of St. Nicholas in Poland, thanks to her idea to create an entrepreneurial conference for youth in Poznan with her friends that she implemented.

 

She has extraordinary plans for the future, starting organizations, further developing her activist work, and furthering studies in Cognitive Science to allow herself to expand her knowledge and career beyond humanitarian work and human rights activism.

So why am I telling you all of this?

I have started this fundraiser to raise money for Wiktoria to go to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology recorded as Top University of the World for 10th year in a row.) Innovation Leadership Bootcamp, which is focused on Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

 

 

This is a prestigious intense 10-week program with MIT professors. It's very competitive as only 10% of applicants are accepted based on initiative, open and critical thinking, compassion, curiosity, capacity for calculated risk, and striving to make an impact. The program brings together hundreds of innovators from across the globe, including leading corporate professionals, NGOs, doctors, Educators, Designers, and Product Owners.

 

This has been one of her dreams for the past few years, and last week she got in, which she was thrilled about. Until now, she has managed to get scholarships for all her studies thanks to her true passion, ambition and the fact that people genuinely believe in the change she is trying to facilitate. However, here they do not offer any financial help.

This is where you come in!

Helping me fund enough money for her to go to MIT Bootcamp. I am reaching out because we have sat for hours, realizing that the Netherlands is going to lockdown, and raising this amount of money is almost impossible for students without some help. Of course, I am asking you for any amount you can give, and if you are not able, then trying to share this with others would be very appreciated and helpful.

 

This is an amazing opportunity for her, and I really believe this will impact others with time. She has done so much for others. This is a time where I would want her to feel people believe in her and believe in the change she is trying to create.

 

Thank you for reading until here, I hope you are able to make a small contribution! If not please share it with others :)