The Yolo Children's Fund recently awarded a 2024 Marty Ewing Scholarship to recent local graduates Kylie Mills, Sam Arfan and Giselle Ayala Delgado.
According to a YCF press release, each scholarship is for $2000 and is intended to help those who have experienced difficult financial circumstances and overcome significant adversity to achieve academic excellence.
Mills graduated from Pioneer High School in Woodland. This fall, she will attend Montana State University Honors College, where she will study Terrestrial Biology.
Arfan and Ayala Delgado graduated from Woodland High School. Arfan will attend California State University Long Beach, where he will be a premed student, while Ayala Delgado will attend Woodland Community College with a goal of obtaining a bachelor's in business management and communications.
Marty Ewing served as the volunteer administrative director of the Yolo Children's Fund for six years until his passing in September 2023. In honor of his commitment to creating opportunities for young people, the Yolo Children's Fund has established the Marty Ewing Scholarship Fund, to provide $2000 scholarships to deserving high school seniors.
The YCF has long been at the forefront of supporting the unmet needs of children in foster care and the juvenile justice system in Yolo County.
Its mission is to ensure that every child in foster care or the juvenile justice system has access to the same extra-curricular activities, resources, and opportunities as other county children. To this end, the Children's Fund has distributed more than $200,000 in grants to more than a thousand children since its inception in 2001.
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