Meet Mariam Topeshashvili, 18, daughter of Georgian emigrants living in Rio de Janeiro, who will study in Harvard.
She is a Brazilian citizen. She speaks Portuguese with a Rio accent and speaks five other languages. She loves politics and economics and spends a lot of time on volunteer work.
Mariam was four when her family arrived in Brazil in 2001. The family could hardly make ends meet. Father was selling beer on Copacabana Beach. It took two years for her mother to find a job. The parents were investing most of their income in their daughter’s education. Mariam studied hard. She became a student at Rio’s prestigious Pedro II College. She participated in math, chemistry and history Olympiads and read books to the blind in her free time.
Last year the U.S. Government chose Mariam to participate in the Youth Ambassador project. Through Education Foundation and EducationUSA Mariam applied to the U.S. universities and on March 31 she received news that Harvard was approving her application with a full scholarship.
The only thing that Mariam regrets is that she cannot share the story of her success with her father, Avtandil. “My father made many sacrifices so I could study. It was he who taught me everything I know about politics. My father loved to read books to me. I read books for the blind. That I also learned from my father,” Mariam says.
We wish success to a young Georgian student at Harvard!
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