Scholarship Winners

My name is Lisa Yoder and I’m married with three children. I was the recipient of a scholarship from the Amish Descendant Scholarship Fund in 2013. I’m currently in my junior year of college, working on my Bachelors of Science degree in Registered Nursing. I grew up in an ultra-conservative Swartzentruber Amish church in central…

My name is Fannie Miller. I grew up in the Geauga County Amish community in Ohio. My childhood was simple and we were quite poor. I was second oldest in a family of fifteen children. My dad was a hard-working man who loved his family. He was generally a happy, kind, and jolly person. He…

What a difficult time we had choosing who should get the scholarships. We had such incredible applicants and of course – we just want to help them all! We ended up giving away $12,000 instead of $10,000 to stretch it a bit further. A hearty congratulations to the winners listed below. Please join us in wishing…

Thanks to Naomi’s hard work in organizing a fundraiser and our generous donors, we were able to offer two scholarships this year. We can’t tell you how thankful we are to those of you who offered us words of encouragement and donations for the fund. There is one lady in particular on my mind who I…

We started working on this fund a long time ago and it feels amazing to finally reach our end goal and award the scholarship money to someone who is working hard to overcome the challenges of studying without parental support. If you come from an Amish background and wish to go to college, please get…