Jane is a 16-year-old girl from Little Rock ECD who dreams of becoming a well-known doctor to help her parents escape poverty. She is described as intelligent, articulate, and spiritual, drawing inspiration from her faith and family. Jane expressed in an interview her sadness at how people insult her parents for not finishing school, and her determination to succeed through hard work so that she can fulfill her goals and dreams.

1. Little Rock Scholars
Jane is an intelligent, articulate,
spiritual sixteen-year-old girl. Her
inspiration comes from God, from
her parents, from her siblings, from
Little Rock ECD.
We met her – along with other
candidates for the Little Rock
Scholars program – in a classroom
lit only by natural light. The photo
doesn’t do justice to what a beautiful
young woman she is. We wish you
“My parents did not finish could see how expressive her face
school and people call and hands are – and how amazingly
them names, which really articulate and inspiring she is.
makes me sad. I would like
to be a well-known doctor. I We have no doubt that given the
pray I will not die young so opportunities and resources she
that I can work hard and deserves, she will do all she dreams
take my parents out of this of.
slum. I know what is She WILL become a well-known
waiting for me in the future. doctor.
I know it will happen. We She WILL take her parents out of the
must work hard to achieve slum.
our goals and dreams.”
It would be a privilege to send
Jane to secondary school.
She WILL change the world.
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