Los Hermanos Familia to Award Scholarships to Encourage Retention & Success
October 19, 2022 3:03AM CDT
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Los Hermanos Familia (LHF) takes pride in education. They believe that their organization’s role is in part to increase the habitus for area families by fostering an environment that offers them more exploration and programs that provide knowledge, life experiences, and opportunity.
That’s why LHF established an Education Committee to initiate and plan effective education programs and lead scholarship efforts. Since 2016, LHF has provided over $48,000 in scholarships to area students.
Tonight, Los Hermanos Familia with its Education Partners – Wayland Baptist University, Lubbock Christian University, and South Plains College, will award an additional $14,000 in scholarships to men currently attending one of these universities to encourage retention and demonstrate their support to the students.
While the scholarships were open to any current male college student in the Lubbock area, Latino males continue to lag behind their non-Latino peers in obtaining their college degrees. Therefore, LHF is committed to increasing attention to education by providing tools and addressing issues impacting individuals and families.
“Education is the way to improve one’s quality of life, and therefore we want to offer tools to men who have struggled financially to obtain that goal,” said Rosa Llanas, LHF’s Education Chair explaining that Los Hermanos Familia not only offers programs and events to the community they also know that education is the way to achieve financial stability and a brighter future.
Llanas said that the recipients are working on undergrad degrees, Master, and Ph.D. programs and were asked to write an essay on how COVID-19 impacted their education.
She added that Los Hermanos Familia will open up another round of scholarships later this year to be awarded in 2023.
Los Hermanos Familia (LHF) takes pride in education. They believe that their organization’s role is in part to increase the habitus for area families by fostering an environment that offers them more exploration and programs that provide knowledge, life experiences, and opportunity.
That’s why LHF established an Education Committee to initiate and plan effective education programs and lead scholarship efforts. Since 2016, LHF has provided over $48,000 in scholarships to area students.
Tonight, Los Hermanos Familia with its Education Partners – Wayland Baptist University, Lubbock Christian University, and South Plains College, will award an additional $14,000 in scholarships to men currently attending one of these universities to encourage retention and demonstrate their support to the students.
While the scholarships were open to any current male college student in the Lubbock area, Latino males continue to lag behind their non-Latino peers in obtaining their college degrees. Therefore, LHF is committed to increasing attention to education by providing tools and addressing issues impacting individuals and families.
“Education is the way to improve one’s quality of life, and therefore we want to offer tools to men who have struggled financially to obtain that goal,” said Rosa Llanas, LHF’s Education Chair explaining that Los Hermanos Familia not only offers programs and events to the community they also know that education is the way to achieve financial stability and a brighter future.
Llanas said that the recipients are working on undergrad degrees, Master, and Ph.D. programs and were asked to write an essay on how COVID-19 impacted their education.
She added that Los Hermanos Familia will open up another round of scholarships later this year to be awarded in 2023.
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