Education as a lifeline: Thủy’s journey from scholarship to success

Education as a lifeline: Thủy’s journey from scholarship to success

Growing up in a one-room home on the outskirts of Da Nang, Vietnam, Thủy dreamed of studying and one day building her mother a new house. It was a hope shaped by loss, determination and a belief in what education could make possible. Her father died when she was just three years old, leaving her mother to raise three young children alone. “Our family was very poor,” recalls Thủy, now 29. “My mother could not afford to send all of us to school.” …