To the Trustees, To the Trustees, XYZ Fund Scholarship(s) I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the Board of Trustees for having awarded me with the XYZ Fund Scholarship. I am deeply honoured to have been awarded with the scholarship, which lately means the possibility to reach an invaluable higher education experience that will prepare me to take the next step in my life and carrer. From an early age, my pursuit for a better future through educational endeavors has been met with great obstacles that often seemed insurmountable. It was through these difficult experiences that I learnt the transformational power of education. My university degree played an important strategic role to prepare me to hold an unthinkable position to most people that have grown-up in the same inner-city neighborhood as I did.