Hosiana began at St Jude鈥檚 in 2003, shy but determined.
Her favourite subject was Science and she wanted to be a doctor.
Hosiana grew and changed in many ways during her years at St Jude's, but her goal never did.
Today, the confident and capable young woman is studying at the best medical school in the country!
Hosiana attributes her self-confidence and success at university, so far, to her Community Service Year. After graduating in 2015 she volunteered to teach Chemistry and Physics at Losirway Secondary School.
This month during her university holidays, the inaugural graduate came back to Arusha to visit her former students and her old stomping ground.聽
鈥淪t Jude鈥檚 and my community service prepared me really well for university.聽Since I was really young, St Jude鈥檚 taught me a lot of things apart from academics鈥� also about attitude, manners, different ways that I can behave when I am with my fellows.鈥澛犅� 聽
Hosiana is already showing her leadership skills as a class representative, which makes her a Member of Parliament at her university.
鈥淢y duties are to organise lectures which are taking place, communicate with the lecturers and other leaders, as well as my fellow scholars, so that we can make learning effective.鈥�
Being the first of her family to attend university, Hosiana often communicates with her family when she is away from them.
鈥淭hey are so very happy and proud of me, for making it to university.鈥�
Late last year, our Beyond St Jude鈥檚 intern, Amani, was lucky enough to visit Hosiana at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science in Dar es Saalam, to check on how she was settling in.聽
鈥淗osiana is the type of woman that truly believes in what she does. When she decides studying hard is what she should do, she will do it,鈥� Amani said.
鈥淪he doesn鈥檛 let the pressure of other people get to her. She is fair, she is determined and a visionary person.鈥�
Amani knows the future is Hosiana鈥檚 for the taking and so does she.聽
"What will make Hosiana a good doctor is that she is real; she won鈥檛 just go with what everyone else does, she isn鈥檛 afraid to question the reason people are doing something,鈥� Amani said.
鈥淪t Jude鈥檚 gave me a strong enough character to get me through whatever comes in life. When I imagine myself in the future, I see myself sitting in a big hospital with so many patients surrounding me and me and I am making the best for all of them,鈥� Hosiana said.
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