Viewers may know very well about the Ariel Rosado Memorial Education Foundation. It was launched in memory of Ariel Rosado, the talented young cyclist whose life was tragically ended by a traffic accident in March 2011.
Well, the Foundation launched their new scholarship program last year, which assists students from primary school, all the way up to the University Level.
Today, they held a ceremony to note the second batch of scholarship awardees, and we got a chance to meet them.
Here's what Rosado's father, who is also the president of the board of directors at the foundation told us about these new awardees:
Dr. Alvaro Rosado - President, Board of Dir., Ariel Rosado Foundation
"The foundation was found eighteen months ago, a year and a half ago and the first year we gave out nine high school scholarships, one university scholarship, and five scholarships for sailors fom primary schools. This year, the second award ceremony, we have increased the awards to twenty six. We are giving ten primary school sailors. We are extending St. Lukes and we are adding St. Johns Primary School to learn to sail with the Belize Sailing Association. We have renewed all the nine high school scholarships that we gave last year and we've added four more; we are renewing one university scholarship that we gave last year and we are adding two new ones. One of the new features is that one of the scholarships, university, is an athletic scholarship and this is to try to encourage people to follow in Ariel's footsteps. The awardee for this year is very apt because he is Quiroz, he is the is the last cross country champion and now the national junior cycling road champion for Belize so he has been awarded a scholarship based on his cycling abilities and the fact that he has been accepted into the university."
Daniel Ortiz
"Since the formation of the Ariel Rosado Memorial Education Foundation, it has grown significantly. Is it your feeling that it's meeting it's objectives?"
Dr. Alvaro Rosado
"I certainly think we are, we are very proud, we have a new board of directors and the foundation has been growing in some bounds. We do have our challenges and problems but we will be working those out but whether we are meeting our marks, certainly we are. There is no question about it and we expect to expand these more next year."
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