Fox 19: Non-profit partners with UC’s Global Scholars program
The Village Life Project and UC International bring global outreach efforts home
First-year UC Global Scholars Timoth Akana and Zedekia Samara express their gratitude to The Village Life Project and the UC Global Scholars program.
“It’s a chance for us to also help some other people if we succeed,“ Samara says of the opportunity to study at UC.
Like most of their first-year student contemporaries in this pandemic, both Samara and Akama started their UC experience online in the fall of 2020. But unlike their peers who chose UC — UC chose them.
Read more about the students and programs.
Featured image at top of Timoth Akana and Zedekia Sumara on UC's campus. Photo/Natalie Ochmann/UC International.
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