Scholarship / Meeting new African people - What excites you. Mastercard Scholarship [2]

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Question:
We want to hear what excites you and what you are passionate about. Please write about a topic that is important to you and how this reflects your personal values

My answer:

Meeting new people is something that I find very fascinating doing, and this has always given me a strong sense of social belonging. I love to socialize and also ensure that I am in continuous reach with people I connect with. I find great joy reaching out to people and sharing ideas over a range of issues that affect our lives directly.

Living in an African society divided by strong religious and ethnic views has further encouraged me to reach out to people in order to understand the everyday challenges of human and how best to integrate into the society. I have been able to achieve a great amount of this through the social media which is indeed a large network base of people. I have been opportune to spearhead various social media campaigns, ranging from politics, environment, culture, down to religion and actively participated in community services and peer academic tutorials. All this has continued to improve my social and communication skills in the same vein shaped my passion of impacting positively in the lives of people I come in contact with daily.

Scholarship / A scenario in which you have needed to show leadership, how you approach this and the outcomes of it [5]

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Demonstrate your potential for leadership

Question:
We want to know how you can demonstrate your potential for leadership. Tell us about a scenario in which you have needed to show leadership, how you approached this, and what the outcomes were.

My answer:

The desire to make positive impact as a good leader increased after I was opportune to secure undergraduate scholarship. As a student I discovered source of funding was a great challenge faced by most students I came in contact with even in the midst of a wide range of scholarship opportunities and grants available to students. This promoted me into making a deep research as to discover how to curb this challenge within my immediate environment. Through research which I conducted by direct conversation with some students, I was able to establish the problem being information bridge. Most students never knew of the existence of such opportunities, why some believed understanding the system was rocket science

Born out of this great urge to help, I assembled a team of like minds and fellow scholars during my third academic year to set up a group called Campus Scholars Connect with the aim of grooming students. I spearheaded this team and actively participated on mentoring programs, assisting and providing students with information on how to successfully secure scholarships and grants. I employed the technique of sharing my success stories and assisting in the scholarship registration process to reduce associated costs and motivate students too. To prevent much interference with academics as complained by one my team mate, guidelines and deadlines were set to ensure targets were achieved while still focused on studies and within a year of valuable input my team was able to successfully secure scholarship for two students.