Fol­low­ing an over­whelm­ing out­pour­ing of love and sup­port from across T&T, 17-year-old Krisann Be­dassie will now be pur­su­ing her dream of at­tend­ing the Yale Young Glob­al Schol­ars pro­gramme at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty.

What be­gan as a daunt­ing fi­nan­cial hur­dle has trans­formed in­to a heart­warm­ing tale of gen­eros­i­ty and kind­ness, as Krisann and her moth­er Sus­sanah Be­dassie, through the gen­er­ous do­na­tions of cit­i­zens, raised more than the US$4,000 re­quired for ac­com­mo­da­tion.

The Form Five St Joseph’s Con­vent, San Fer­nan­do, stu­dent won a mer­it-based schol­ar­ship, mak­ing her the first T&T na­tion­al ad­mit­ted in­to the renowned pro­gramme. Though the schol­ar­ship cov­ered ac­com­mo­da­tion for Krisann dur­ing the two-week pro­gramme, she re­quired ad­di­tion­al ac­com­mo­da­tion for her­self, as well as for her moth­er who would be ac­com­pa­ny­ing her.