Empowering Mothers Scholarship for Single Moms

Hello, my name is Breanna Pope. I’m pursuing my education in criminal justice, which definitely hasn’t been easy because I’m also a 22 year old single mother of two beautiful children as well as working full time! I want to further my education in this field for my children! I want to set the bar high for them when they are older. My goal is for them to see that a young single mother of two babies was able to figure out how to balance out work, school, and well of course the most important part being a mother! With all that being said it was never easy for me growing up, I was the first in my family to graduate highschool, I had to raise my two younger sisters along with trying to graduate and I was working a full time job in high school to pay our bills! I’m the first one to apply and be accepted into college which is a huge accomplishment for myself! I come from a low income family who constantly struggled with substance abuse so all the adulting was always put on me! Which is okay because I’m grateful for being raised the way I was! Growing up in a low income household at 16 paying my mothers bills and taking care of my sisters and managing to graduate was a huge accomplishment for me but now I’m a mother of two, and I’d like to further my education so my children won’t have to go through what I went through as a child. It’s challenging for me to go back to school because it takes time away from being a mother but that missed time is temporary! I struggle with sleep because I have a newborn and a 2 year old but no one ever said making a name for your self and getting an amazing opportunity at education was easy! I’m willing to struggle for my kiddos to have a great life! Im extremely motivated by my children. I want to set the bar high for my children, I want my children to be more successful then myself and better yet I want to be able to help them when they do struggle instead of being on their own like me, which motivates me even more to get my college degree! I also want me children to realize they aren’t alone and we will work through this together, since Im working so hard to do this by myself I would love the opportunity for them to not have to struggle the way I did to get my education! What motivates me the most is them seeing their mother not giving up, and seeing their mother do everything she absolutely can to provide for them and getting that degree to make our lives easier! I think it’s highly important that my children see that taking the easy route gets you no where but putting in the hard time and effort will get us somewhere! (Thank you for this opportunity)