Supporting a young woman's study ambitions

We first met A in 2024 when she was a regular and enthusiastic member of a Summer School that Herts Welcomes Refugees Dacorum ran for youngsters who had missed out on college places due to arriving in the UK mid-year.

She arrived in the UK with ambitions to study at university and has worked her way through the Applied Science BTEC course at West Herts College where she is now completing level 3.

HWR has supported her progress, subsidising the repair of her tablet which was essential in pursuing her course, facilitating meetings with a consultant at Refugee Education UK and advising on the completion of her UCAS application form.

​A’s ambition is to become a primary school teacher and she has volunteered to help out at the creche at one of our weekly drop-ins. She intends to get more experience volunteering in a school or nursery while she works to improve her GCSE grades, deferring university entry until next year.  We congratulate her on her progress and wish her every success for her future as a teacher.