{"id":14913,"date":"2022-08-03T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/?p=14913"},"modified":"2024-02-17T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:31:49","slug":"going-to-study-in-the-us-is-like-a-dream-for-me-says-16-year-old-who-won-the-us-state-departments-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/?p=14913","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGoing to study in the US is like a dream for me\u201d says 16 year-old who won the US State Department\u2019s scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lucknow:<\/strong> \u201cGoing to study in the US is like a dream for me, I would have never imagined studying abroad,\u201d says 16 year-old Kashish, who got selected for the US State Department\u2019s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme scholarship. She leaves for St Louis, Missouri later this week. \u201cIt is a great learning opportunity for me and my school has been my biggest support throughout.\u201d Kashish is a Prerna alum, who is currently studying in class 11 at Study Hall School on scholarship. She joined Prerna Girls School in 2009 and later earned a scholarship to study at Study Hall School because of her excellent academic performance. Kashish will be studying at Parkway South High School, in St Louis, Missouri, USA for this academic year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kashish lost her father at the age of five. Her mother, Shashi is a single parent, raising three daughters and works at a women’s self help group, where she makes dry snacks and pickles. \u201cMy daughters have made me so proud. Kashish is going to study abroad. All of us are so excited and happy,\u201d says Sahshi. \u201cI dealt with society when they questioned me for not having a son and raising three daughters alone after losing my husband. I was able to send all my daughters to school because of Prerna School. I don\u2019t need a son, I have my daughters\u201d, she adds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rakhee Panjwani, principal, Prerna Girls School (a unit of Study Hall Educational Foundation) says, \u201cThis is indeed a very proud moment for our school. Kashish has been one of the brightest students and it is her dedication and hard work that got her selected for the scholarship. We wish her good luck for her journey and hope that she returns more confident and encourages her peers too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past, 10 girls had been selected from Study Hall Educational Foundation for the YES programme to study in the US. The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme brings high school students from countries of strategic importance to the United States for an academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucknow: \u201cGoing to study in the US is like a dream for me, I would have never imagined studying abroad,\u201d says 16 year-old Kashish, who got selected for the US State Department\u2019s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme scholarship. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-14913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prn","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14913"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14975,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913\/revisions\/14975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyhallfoundation.org\/studyhall-blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}