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<\/p>\nThe Yemeni American News<\/p>\n
Dearborn, Mich. \u2013 Through the American Association of Yemeni Students and Professionals, 14 students were able to receive scholarships meant to establish a pathway for achieving their dreams of higher education. Along with 13 other students, one student was honored with being AAYSP\u2019s student of the year \u2013 Mothana Alsoofi.<\/p>\n
Alsoofi is a Fordson High School student who will be attending Stanford University next fall. His achievements are vast, with massive contributions to STEM, Sports and Community Engagement extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Student of the year award goes to an exceptional student who committed himself to academic excellence and community service,\u201d said Adeeb Mozip, National Board Vice President of AAYSP.<\/p>\n
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Alsoofi\u2019s desire for his future is to become a software engineer after obtaining a degree in technology and business-focused majors. He says he wants to use his degree \u201cas a vessel for bringing my dreams to reality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAAYSP is a great coalition of members dedicated to advancing the Yemeni American Community through education,\u201d Alsoofi said. \u201cI am proud to be a member of that community and am proud to do my part in achieving that goal. This scholarship will help make that mission easier, and for that, I am eternally grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Fordson High School, Alsoofi was exceptionally involved with his schools affairs and the betterment of the community around him. Completing 147 hours of community service \u2013 including serving as Chair of the Dearborn Youth Affairs Commission \u2013 he\u2019s provided a generous donation of countless hours for the people around him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a Yemeni-American, it was always difficult to find that happy medium where I was open to new things and truly growing while maintaining my sense of identity and pride in my cultural traditions,\u201d Alsoofi said. \u201cThrough meeting others in similar positions, I was able to navigate the continuum between clinging to my familial and cultural traditions and being \u201cAmericanized.\u201d I learned to embrace my cultural and ethnic background, but also to walk into every room with an open mind, letting go of my preconceived notions to make strides towards growing as an individual.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a son of immigrants, Alsoofi also expressed his gratitude to his family for taking a perilous journey, risking their lives, for a better life for their children.<\/p>\n
\u201cI come from a family of immigrants who laid their lives on the line to make the prospect of a better life a reality,\u201d Alsoofi said. \u201cAs Yemenis, we are all too familiar with these incredible obstacles.<\/p>\n
In Alsoofi\u2019s immediate future, the work is just beginning. He plans to work through college, maintaining financial security while attending one of the most prestigious universities in the world. While his industriousness will get him far along at Stanford, this scholarship, he says, will definitely help.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis scholarship will help me purchase the books and other costly resources needed for each class,\u201d Alsoofi said. \u201cThis scholarship will help alleviate my concerns over my financial security, and thus enable me with the gift of being able to take control of my future. Having autonomy over my future is a gift that I aim to provide to my people in the war-ravaged Yemen, and this scholarship will be a first step towards realizing that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The scholarship award for this year\u2019s AAYSP Student of the Year was sponsored by the Yemeni American News. The Yemeni American News would like to congratulate all of those who received scholarships through the generous donations made to AAYSP.<\/p>\n
Along with Alsoofi, 13 other students received scholarships for their achievements in an out of the classroom. Those students are: Samia Abdullah, Ibrahim Aldhaibani, Afrah Mohamed, Badr Aljamal, Mariam Aljahmi, Wallyaldeen Alhomaidi, Idriss Saleh, Nada Almasmori, Amalaak Mohamed, Nader Barman, Hassan Saleh, Saleh Alshemmam, and Abdullah Yafai.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations to all the students,\u201d Mozip said. \u201cWe wish them all the best in their pursuit of higher education in all of these exceptional higher education institutions they\u2019re attending.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The American Association of Yemeni Students and professionals is a federally-recognized 501(3)c nonprofit organization. Their mission is \u201cto build empowered Yemeni-American Communities with infrastructure and resources to maximize academic success, community engagement, and eliminate the cultural barriers concerning education.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yemeni American News Dearborn, Mich. \u2013 Through the American Association of Yemeni Students and Professionals, 14 students were able to receive scholarships meant to establish a pathway for achieving their dreams of higher education. Along with 13 other students, one student was honored with being AAYSP\u2019s student of the year \u2013 Mothana Alsoofi. Alsoofi […]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news","category-local","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}