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It motivated me to learn that Bella Soul was offering the Villasenor Latinx Scholarship this year. I could have not be any more driven to apply. It pleases me to know that there are organizations that devote endless efforts to give people like me a boost in life, thus facilitating the road ahead of us. I …
Dear Bella Soul Board: I am sincerely honored to have been selected as a recipient of the Anderson and Stowell Bella Soul Scholarship for the 2021-22 academic year. My name is Jared Anderson, and I recently graduated from Auburndale High located in Central Wisconsin. I will be pursuing a career of accounting at the University …
My story is one that has many beginnings and many ends. Throughout life people are always saying that you only have one life to live, but is that actually true? Do we really only have one life to live? Now of course, no one can be born twice, but the feeling of being born again; …
My name is Alecia Sankey, I am a freshman at Valencia College who is currently taking online courses. In 2019 I enrolled for an associate degree in general studies. I have previously completed three courses on the East campus. I am also deaf/disabled so everything is a little more challenging for me than for the …
It’s said that it is the little things that make the biggest difference and, while this is surely true, the significance of this statement cannot be understood until one lives life with a physical disability. At the age of 18 months I was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type two (SMA II), a degenerative neuromuscular …
My name is Henry Nalker, and I am 19 years old. I was diagnosed with Joubert Syndrome when I was three months old by doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland. My parents and doctors started me in physical therapy at that point. At six months, I started occupational therapy, and at …
In 2017, I was living a “normal” life as I thought. I was working 3 jobs and considered myself healthy. But quickly things changed. I started noticing small things that I couldn’t do such as button up buttons or open a 2 liter soda bottle. My family then started noticing other things happening to me …
Walt Disney once said, “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” I believe I am one of such dreamers with the courage to seek out success in all aspects of life. When I was six years old, I lost my elder sister to sickle cell anemia. She was …
Dear Scholarship Board, Thank you so much for the Bella Soul Diversity Scholarship. Although I’d like to keep my story private and confidential, I truly appreciate everyone on the board taking the time to read about my journey living with a chronic illness. Your gift of money is definitely appreciated and will used toward my tuition …
Many people have heard of the disability called “cerebral palsy.” In the month of January of 1999, Mike and Renee Bennett had to hear of this disability in a very hard way. They received the news that their son, Brent, was diagnosed with this disability, actually the “official” diagnosis was periventruicular leukomalacia – in layman’s …