Tell a story about my financial need or circumstance for the Allan and Nesta Ferguson scholarship.
The question is:
This scholarship is awarded based on financial needs, please use this section to tell us anything we should consider about your financial circumstance. Please use these points below to generate a very strong essay.
– Start from my family financial needs
– Mention the number of children (3) I have in my family, mention the financial income that comes to my family which is less than 200 Pounds per annum
– Mention the occupation of my mother as a petty trader who is also a single parent.
– Mention how I attended my primary school education, talk about how difficult it was for to attend primary school because of financial challenges, write about the neighborhood I grew up, the level of development in the area where I attended my primary school education.
– Mention how my mother has contributed immensely to my education throughout my primary school education, talk about how some family relatives also contributed.
– Mention the need that I am having financial challenge and this financial challenge is actually the basis inn which this scholarship will be awarded, they want to assist the poorest of the poor.
– Mention how difficult it was for me to get into secondary school, talk about my experiences as a young person during my secondary days, write about what I did to assist myself financially, to assist my family as well, write about how my family was able to raise money for my tuition fee in secondary school and you successfully graduated from secondary school with a very good result which I used to gain admission into the university.
– Mention the financial difficult you experienced as a young adult, how I had issues gaining admission into the university. Write about how I waited for 2 years before eventually gaining admission into the university because of my mother and I couldn’t avoid to pay for my fees.
– Mention how I had challenges paying tuition fees, buying textbooks and some other school related things, write about how I combined my academics with extra-curricular jobs to augment what my mother gave me. Please instances.
– Write to make sure that the selection committee see that I have serious financial challenge, but I did a lot of things to help myself, and at the end of the day, I came out with flying colours with my shoulder held high, please make sure that they see how I was able to achieved what I have achieved.
– Mention some of the things I have doing since I graduated from the university, how I been unemployed, also mention some of the difficulties I have experienced firsthand as a Nigeria graduate, please show my financial difficult to the panel, write how long I did petty jobs for (3years) before securing a relatively nice job the Nigeria National Assembly as a Legislative Assistant through the policy and legal advocacy central (PLAC) legislative internship programme.
– Mention how my income cannot fund the master’s programme.
– Mention that despite the fact that I have financial need, write to show a genuine need to solve the developmental problem in my country Nigeria.
– Mention briefly how getting financial aid for this M.Sc. will change my life and community, education and social mobility.
– Mention how education is a tool for social mobility and how I believe if given the opportunity, it will increase my prospect of starting up my own nonprofit and also increase my prospect of contributing to my society in pulling the people of my community out of poverty.
– End the essay with a plea to the selection panel, how I need this scholarship to support not just my postgraduate career, but how I intend to give back by helping people like me with 2 or 3 lines
– Tell the story/essay in a well-articulated manner.
– Please follow a very chorological order, starting from my primary school education upward.
– Please include statistics and make sure it is very real
– Write in a very compelling, inspiring, interesting and convincing manner.
– I am writing to a selection panel made up of academic professors, please write in a very professional way.
– Make this essay a 500words essay and please be very compelling as much as possible.