Agripina Sandoya

Home Community: Hato Chamí, Jädaberi, Distrito Nole Duima, Comarca Ngäbe-Bugle

Agripina Sandoya lives in the community of Hato Chamí and works at the Hato Chamí Education Center where many of the FFC scholarship recipients attend middle school and high school. Agripina is a role model for our scholarship recipients, she recently went back to school and earned her high school diploma through attending an accelerated night school program just like some of our scholarship recipients have done. She is now enrolled in a Social Work bachelor’s degree program at a university in the city of David. Agripina is the mother of current FFC scholar Kenneth, former FFC scholar Kevin, and has a daughter, Karen.

Agripina has helped FFC improve communication with students and their families in the remote mountainous communities in the Jädeberi township. She has volunteered with FFC since 2011 and says “I like to work [with FFC] because I can help the community, and in my opinion, the help that you are giving us is considerable, by giving a scholarship, by giving assistance.” Her greatest hope for the FFC scholars is that “ they take advantage of it (the scholarship), and that they become professionals in the future, and that they can help others like you help us.” Agripina and Rogelio Montezuma act as the FFC representatives in the community of Hato Chamí and neighboring communities, promoting the FFC scholarship, distributing scholarship applications, and collecting important student documents.

Hear from Agripina in her installment of our Faces of Few for Change video series.