NBC4 Viewers Send Students to College
NBC4 Beating the Odds Scholars
Updated 3:15 PM PDT, Fri, Dec 18, 2009
It is easy to caught up in the negative news of the day, and overlook the many positive things that happen all around Southern California. This holiday season, seven college students will be able to pay for their education, thanks to NBC4 viewers like you who are making a difference.
The NBC 4 Beating the Odds scholars got a behind the scenes look at our newsroom and studios. Most have traveled rocky paths to get here. Some of them live in violent neighborhoods, face poverty, or suffered abuse. They all have one thing in common: They want something better for their future.
Stephanie Cardenas wants to start her own business someday and is now a business major at Loyola Marymount University.
Flor Castellon is studying at Marymount College to become a lawyer: “Just come back to my community and let them know, I come from where you come from, look where I am now.”
They have done the right things – worked hard, enrolled in community college. This is their only chance for a good education.
No one has made it past the tenth grade in Alvaro Pimental’s family; he is the very first to graduate from high school and go to college. He is a first year college student at Pierce Community College and would like to someday become a firefighter.
“I had to stay in school, had to do it for myself and I wanted to show everyone else in my family, the younger kids, that they can do it as well.”
Now, with funds generously donated by our viewers, they will be able to realize their dreams. In partnership with the Fulfillment Fund and the California Community Foundation, we award scholarships every year to college students who have weathered numerous obstacles in their lives to get higher education.
Dennis Zapata, a graduate of Crenshaw High School, is a student at Mount San Antonio College, and said that he will buy a laptop computer to help him to do schoolwork online. “This means a lot to me,” he said.
Station manager Craig Robinson and news anchor Ana Garcia were on hand to present the check, and show them support, on behalf of our viewers, who cared enough to send in checks to help students who beat the odds.
To donate to the Beating the Odds Scholarship Fund, you can send to:
NBC4 Beating the Odds Fund
C/o California Community Foundation
445 S. Figueroa St.
Suite 3400
Los Angeles, CA 90071
The Fulfillment Fund
First Published: Dec 11, 2009 6:22 PM PDT
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