“It is an immense privilege to have been chosen as one of the scholars on the Black Heart Foundation Scholarship programme! I cannot express my gratitude to the trustees for believing in me and investing in my future through this generous scholarship. My parents and family have always encouraged me to enhance my academic potential by pursuing higher education. When I applied and subsequently got a place to study Law at the University of Cambridge, my family and I were absolutely elated that I would have the opportunity to learn from world-class academics in an intellectually stimulating environment. However, it wasn’t long before I became aware of the immense costs that are associated with going to university – such costs that my family didn’t have the means to cover. At one point it seemed unlikely that my twin sister and I would both be able to start our undergraduate degrees at the same time, due to the financial burden it would have created for our family. However, The Black Heart Foundation has helped make our dreams of university a reality and I am extremely thankful for their kindness and financial support, from the bottom of my heart. It is an honour to be involved with an organisation that is actively working to make education accessible to students form low socio-economic backgrounds. Whilst I am at university, I hope to work on increasing accessibility to universities such as Cambridge, to students from low socio-economic and underrepresented backgrounds.”