Longtime OFA scholarship sponsor Amy Bernstein was in town last weekend to visit her son, a freshman studying political science at The George Washington University, and she shared a lovely breakfast with scholarship director Tina Raheem at Washington’s historic Union Station.

Ms. Bernstein has been funding scholarships for many years, and the student she currently helps to fund, Nanjiba will be graduating from West Virginia University in May 2010 with a dual degree in Marketing and French. As Nanjiba recently said, “I remember five years ago, I walked into the University, frightened and feeling small. I felt that graduation was so far away but now it’s only one more semester away. Some days I didn’t think I would come to see that day for graduation; when every homework and test seemed to difficult to accomplish, but now I am almost at the end of the tunnel and cannot wait to walk proudly with two degrees across that stage; and it’s all because of your generosity and the support from OFA.”

Ms. Bernstein supports OFA and the scholarship program in honor of her two children and the daughter of her heart, a young woman for whom Ms. Bernstein and her husband are “voluntary parents.” As Ms. Bernstein says, “I simply can’t imagine going to college and facing young adulthood without parents or a family.”

Ms. Bernstein also supports the OFA Care Package program and recently contributed packages for three OFA scholars who attend The George Washington University.

THANK YOU, Mrs. Bernstein! It is the investment and support of generous individuals like you that gets our students through college. Truly, their success is a testament to your belief in America’s foster youth.

To find out how you can support an OFA scholarship student, contact scholarships@orphan.org. To contribute to our Care Package Program, click HERE.