Mar 26, 2025 | Impact stories, National Scholarship Program
Just over three years ago, Emery and his friends decided to go ice skating. “We all made fun of each other, because we were so bad at it,” Emery laughs. Emery soon enrolled in a ten-week skating course. He was surprised to learn that he had an innate talent for the...
Jul 3, 2024 | First Nations Services, Impact stories, National Scholarship Program, Youth homelessness
In 2005, Sam Alderton-Johnson applied for a scholarship through Youth Off The Streets’ National Scholarship Program at his caseworker’s suggestion. “I had ambitions to go to university, but I failed all my trial HSC exams,” Sam remembers. “That’s when I realised...
Jun 18, 2024 | National Scholarship Program
Rasha remembers the day her parents decided to flee Iraq. An envelope arrived in the mail, stained with blood. “It was an anonymous letter, and our family was threatened to be killed,” she says. “Though we loved our life and community there, it no longer felt...
Feb 12, 2024 | Impact stories, National Scholarship Program
I was going through some family issues while studying for my HSC. My father had received a terminal cancer diagnosis and my mother had to take time off work to be his carer. I had been doing pretty well academically, but as the eldest child I now had to take on more...
Jun 17, 2022 | Impact stories, National Scholarship Program
Steven spent most of his childhood in Liberia – a country in West Africa, ravaged by decades of civil war. He remembers what it was like to fight for survival alongside his family. “My father died during the war,” he explains. “My whole family scattered, and I lost my...
