English Access Microscholarship Program Celebrates 10 Years
[Sohai]l: Now I'm able to serve for my community, now I'm able to learn more about the American culture, it's really important. According to me, it's life changing.
My name is Sohail, and I'm from Karachi, Pakistan. The Access program
is a English-language program and it is funded by the U.S. Department of State.
And we have the Access program in 85 different countries of the world.
Students from the under privilege areas, they are involved in the Access in Access program for two years, they learn English.
Besides learning English, they do some community service activities.
Before Access program I used to think about just for myself, that what to do from my life, what to do for my my family, what to do for me, but after Access I started thinking for others.
And this reason that I started my own school.
Schooling system where we teach the poor kids of our community who want to study but cannot afford education.
So this that big impact on my time that I started thinking for others.
So it's 10th anniversary of the Access program. So we are now here from from the 22 different countries, 23 members here, just celebrating the Access anniversary.
[Jarallah] My name is Jarallah Tairy, I am from Yemen.
We are participating in the Access 10th Anniversary celebration workshop.
Our first destination in the States was Montana State.
We were taking training and leadership public speaking, conflict resolution, and we were hosted by American families there, which was a great experience.
You've got to see things from a different perspective.
[ Crystal] I am Crystal Fernandez and I am from the Philippines.
Access program made me more confident, it made me more open-minded.
Those participants who joined joint Access program, they are now in college, the Access program helped them to gain higher education, the Access program helped them to speak in the English, English-language fluently they helped them to become aware and the world and not just in our little community.
