Donors and students gather for annual Celebration of Scholarships dinner
Few students have traveled farther than Justus Uwayesu ’18 to reach a Harvard classroom. A native of Rwanda, Uwayesu lost both parents in the 1994 genocide, and at age 7 walked from his home village to the capital of Kigali, where he found himself living in a garbage dump. When a humanitarian visited and asked what she could do to help, Uwayesu told her he wanted to go to school. The educational journey he began that day will come to an end next year, when he receives his diploma from Harvard College. “When I was done with high school in Rwanda and deciding where to go to college, I chose Harvard,” said Uwayesu, a recipient of the Betsy and Alan Cohn Scholarship Fund. “I chose Harvard for its reputation for producing leaders dedicated to their country’s futures, but, frankly speaking, it was also one of the few colleges I could afford to attend. “In this...