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Sharing of Scholarship Recipients

Akhtar NAZEEM

 

Akhtar Nazmeen (Visual Arts)
Recipient of Tsim Sha Tsui District Kai Fong Welfare Association Admission Scholarship Scheme for Outstanding South and South East Asian Ethnic Minority Students (EMSS) 2017/18


I grow up in Hong Kong and my both parents are Pakistani. I have 3 siblings and I am the eldest. We grow up in a Chinese environment and we all are fluent in Chinese speaking. I am more family oriented. I love to interact with people who come from different cultural backgrounds. I have been influenced by my mother to join the path of being a visual art student as she is a creative person and therefore I am really impressed by her. Even though she didn't study, she got this kind of talent so I would like to follow her to find my way. My parents were not educated but they taught us to have good character and be a person with good conduct. Because of them we are now well educated.

In the past, I heard from many EM people who studied until Form 3 that they didn't continue to study because they did not find equal opportunities to do the same as local Chinese could do and they ended up in doing low paid jobs like construction workers. However, nowadays more and more ethnic minorities are going into universities level or even higher. They find their way out as being Hong Kongers. My goal is not to earn a lot of money but to express myself more to the world and especially in Hong Kong as an EM representative. I would like to stand out to encourage the EM people to try their best to achieve what they want.

I am really grateful to get the EMSS Scholarship. I think it has encouraged more EM people like me to further study in Hong Kong and proved that we can also have achievements in our life. For some of us, the scholarship also helps relieve our financial burden, especially for those who could not support their children after secondary school. It is undoubtedly a great support to EM students, both mentally and financially.

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