"IT IS often said that ‘nothing worth having comes easy’. And no one understands that better than Samira Gayle. After a series of financial and personal hurdles, the 20-year-old is proudly embarking on her college career at The University of the West Indies (UWI) – a year later than is usual.

Gayle has been awarded a scholarship from the National Baking Company Foundation, through the UWI Endowment Fund. She will be studying for her bachelor of science in pure and applied chemistry.

But leading up to this point, almost everything went awry … yet, somehow, it has all worked out for her. And the young Christian has come to accept that “God has most certainly set her on her own unique path to success”.

After being accepted to attend UWI, Gayle and her family had a plan.

“Everyone said OK, we’re going to pool together. This one would put 50 and that one would put 50, and so on. But when it came down to the nitty-gritty, no one had any money,” she said. "

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