brightbeginningsfoundation.ca<\/a> adds.<\/p>\nBagudu, 17, described the award as \u201cdefinitely a huge blessing and a huge help.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would definitely be hard to sustain my schooling without this type of support,\u201d the teen said Friday (July 3).<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just really grateful for what has been given to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bagudu \u2013 who started at EMS after moving to the Semiahmoo Peninsula from Nigeria with his mom and two younger brothers around three years ago \u2013 said he learned of the bursary opportunity through the school\u2019s Teams app, and plans to study sciences when he starts at UBC in September.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s eyeing a career in medicine, but has yet to settle on a particular field. At the moment, family medicine, anesthesiology and dermatology all appeal, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my last year of high school, I was really thinking about what i wanted to do (and) I just saw myself liking the medical field more,\u201d he said. \u201cI think there needs to be more doctors in the world, and more medicine professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bagudu said he was \u201cdumbfounded\u201d to learn he\u2019d been chosen for the bursary \u2013 worth approximately $44,000 \u2013 noting he\u2019s certain he was among \u201ca lot\u201d of students who had applied.<\/p>\n
The BBF, founded in March 2015, is entirely volunteer-run, website information notes. Ninety-nine per cent of donations received go towards providing the bursaries.<\/p>\n
Board member Karen Kilbride said a recent contribution came out of a neighbourhood charity garage sale held in Ocean Park. Participants of that annual event donated the event\u2019s $1,000-plus proceeds to the foundation, she said.<\/p>\n
For more information on Bright Beginnings Foundation, visit brightbeginningsfoundation.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bursary to UBC a \u2018huge blessing\u2019: White Rock teen Published 10:30 am Saturday, July 4, 2026 An Earl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-781939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}