Arkansas Single Father or mother Scholarship Fund acknowledges and celebrates Alana Sterling because the March 2024 Volunteer of the Month.
Though a volunteer for lower than a yr, Alana isn’t any stranger to the ASPSF mission.
Ten years in the past, she utilized for a single mother or father scholarship beginning her journey to turn into a Registered Nurse. On the time, she was a Licensed Nursing Assistant incomes $8.50 an hour.
In 2023, Alana reached her objective! She graduated from the College of Arkansas at Little Rock with a bachelor’s in nursing. Right now, she’s incomes $30 an hour as a Registered Nurse at a Conway dialysis clinic.
“Her story is the story of resiliency, braveness, and success towards each odd,” ASPSF Program Supervisor Daphne Scott mentioned. “Her story can also be a narrative about love. The love she has for her two daughters, her sufferers, and the love she has that propels her to present again now as a volunteer for Arkansas Single Father or mother Scholarship Fund.”
Throughout her 10-year journey with ASPSF, Alana labored full-time, studied nursing, and raised her two daughters. She persevered whereas deciding which family invoice to pay that week, that month — when all of them merely couldn’t be paid. Every diploma and license she earned put her household on the trail to monetary stability.
In the course of the pandemic, she was a Licensed Sensible Nurse for the Conway Human Improvement Heart. Wearing full-body protecting gear, she helped disabled shoppers unable to take care of their private wants. Earlier than she might greet her two daughters when she got here dwelling, she needed to absolutely disrobe outdoors of her dwelling, enter the again door that led on to the laundry room, instantly launder her garments, and take a bathe.
Now, this unbelievable single mother has chosen to turn into an ASPSF volunteer to assist extra single mother and father attain their profession goals similar to her.
“Thanks from the depths of our hearts for changing into a real chief of our neighborhood in Faulkner County and sharing your love and life’s dream and fervour with us,” Daphne mentioned. “Thanks for who you might be on this planet!”
