OUR SCHOLARSHIPS GIRLS

Read carefully: she is a true 21st century gladiator!

“Hi! My name is Paula Gallego, and I was an AMUM scholarship recipient in 2016. At that time, I was captain of a roller field hockey team in Marbella. I remember that in the interview they gave me during the process of being selected as a scholarship recipient, I named the sport, and they asked me how I was able to be in that gladiatorial world, and the only thing I thought about was that I was a gladiator. I must have also kept this in mind during the university career I decided to study, engineering in industrial technologies. I knew that again I was getting into “a man’s world”, and that I had to stand as the gladiator that I am to assert myself, due to the thoughts of some colleagues and even professors, that women cannot be in this world. The life of women is always more complicated for the mere fact of being women, and thanks to the AMUM scholarship I received at that time I was able to start my studies in a satisfactory way, because, besides, being a scholarship holder of AMUM is not only an economic help, but you belong to a community of women willing to help each other. Today I would like to be able to say that I am a great engineer, but for reasons of illness I had to stop my life for 2 years and I am currently working as a teacher of Industrial Technology and Mathematics, a situation that I like because since I was little I have loved teaching and I have the patience and vocation for it, however, I am looking forward to soon resume my career as an engineer, since that is what I want to focus my future, and I know I can do it.”