Yazan Ba’ara

“So I think the Abdul Latif Jameel-Toyota Scholarship [at MIT] changed my life in that literal sense, I mean, in in that complete sense because, they’re the ones who allowed me to attend an MIT –  allowed me to MIT based on my merit and not because or based on my financial ability to.  So, they changed my life by allowing me to attend this marvelous institution by giving me the support that I needed in order to attend this institution. By helping me along the way in case I needed help with with whatever they’re doing especially with Community Jameel that does a lot of work in social entrepreneurship and social enterprise – so, to keep it very short, they changed my life by just allowing me to attend the top university in the world and by giving me support to continue that journey in this university.

It has definitely, I think , broadened my horizon.  Sort of, coming to MIT you don’t really get exposure to the different fashions of the community to the different people from different socio-economic standards, which is one of the main reasons that I started doing social entrepreneurship, so they really show you,  Abdul Latif Jameel although, sort of, they helped me with the scholarship, they also helped me open my eyes towards what this world really has, and how I can use my MIT education to benefit those in need because I was so sort of fortunate to attend this institution.  Fortunate to receive the support from them.  And the only rational thing is is to give back to your community, the only thing that you can do is give back to your community.  So they helped me open my eyes towards what the community lacks, what hides behind closed doors, what the community needs you in, and give me support to to allow me to give back to the community.”

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