Help me to Finish my study

Hello Everyone,

I am an Indonesian student at Wageningen University and Research, and my name is Dinda. I am writing to request your assistance in raising funds for my university tuition. Currently, I am going through financial difficulties and so I’m looking for any little contribution that could help me to achieve my dream of masters. This fundraising is my last hope to complete my education.

Financial Situations:

I only have my mother in my core family, and I lived with her in Indonesia before coming here to the Netherlands for my study. She got supported financially by her big family to raise me and my brother since our childhood. Furthermore, I am the only member of my family to have completed secondary school. Unfortunately, my family did not fully support me to take higher education as in our traditions, women don’t need to get higher education than men, because they believe that all women will eventually end up as a housewife in the family. I have been through a lot of struggles to achieve my dreams of studying abroad and could never forget the hustle of convincing my family of the importance of education. I made so many efforts to persuade my family that later in my life, I will not give them any financial burden regarding my higher education. Since, my bachelor I’ve received scholarships to finish my studies and so I worked hard and finished it with good grades. Additionally, I was fortunate enough to receive a two-year Master's scholarship from the Indonesian government to study at my dream place Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. I remember the first time I arrived in The Netherlands in August 2020 when the covid cases were on the surge. During that pandemic period, I was quite struggling with my mental health issues because of loneliness as a consequence of online education. I could not meet people, couldn’t go with the normal life chores or even focus on my online studies at home. It was like; I was procrastinating the work or assignments as much as I can, due to a lack of focus which actually lead to delays in the end. Apparently, my scholarship provider gave me two more months of scholarships which were until October 2022. With the passing of time, financial stress, losing my confidence and study pressure worsen my mental health issues. I had to regain my mental peace to be able to work properly and efficiently on my academics and so I decided to consult a psychiatrist. I took medication from the psychiatrist to overcome my mental health issues and followed the treatments for seven months, but the financial problems were still unbending.

Currently, the tuition fee was and is my biggest concern because it is a lot for me; especially considering non-EU students. I have tried all possible financial options to get support from my University and they have helped by reducing the amount of tuition fee until January 2023. But, due to some mandatory course exams; I still needed to delay my study until next year and so the rest of the payment has to be done, all of course by myself. So far, I have covered my tuition fees with all of my savings and the salary received from my two part-time jobs (as a cook’s assistant and a library assistant). However, there is still a significant difference between the amount of money I have raised and the amount I still need to cover my tuition fees. I am depressed with all of this going on and seeking any kind of financial help possible to not lose hope. This is why I am looking for help from generous people reading my voice for help and support for my education.

Academic activity:

Despite the hardships of my academic journey in Bachelor, I managed to get an opportunity to do an exchange student in South Korea for free. I also participated in a student community that concerns about agriculture and farming in Indonesia. Additionally, I have also participated in livestock research that can help farmers to improve their animal health. Researches such as finding alternative medication for sick animals using herbal or any resources that can be found around the fields have been my part of studies. I am now pursuing MS in animal sciences, with a focus on human and animal physiology. My subject research is about the relationship between physiology and immunology in animal diseases for finding potential biomarkers. Furthermore, these biomarkers may help future research to find medications or improve the health of animal diseases.

I hope that I can continue to walk this path. With your help, I can ensure that I will finish my studies and fulfill my dream of graduating from WUR. My childhood ambition will finally come into existence if I can start to work after my studies to contribute more to animal health research.

I will be very grateful if you can help me with any amount that you can support.

From a human to another;

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and I really appreciate your help and support for me.

You can also support me using Tikkie Link:

https://tikkie.me/pay/t0f9vrbiefb41l8hi6tq

Kind regards,

Dinda