Currently in my third semester of studies towards the BSN Degree at the University of XXXX, I hope very much to be selected to continue my graduate studies in nursing here at the University of XXX as well. I could not be more pleased that one of the finest nurse midwife Masters Programs in the world is here in Utah where my husband and I are building our home and making our family. Originally from Afghanistan, I am a former refugee who fled the political violence and civil war in my country and eventually was able to immigrate to America. I have come to dearly love Utah; it is wonderful to feel safe and to have the opportunity to study and progress professionally as a woman.

My husband has helped me open a small school for girls in Afghanistan and we have a few friends who are managing the teaching while we support them financially. My biggest dream is to expand our NGO at some point to include a teaching program for nurse midwifery and in this way have a share in addressing the desperate problem of one in eight women dying in child birth in Afghanistan, among the highest levels in the world.