Malone Scholarship: Making students’ dreams come true

KENT, Ohio– For many high school graduates, getting into a college or university of their choice is a monumental task.
                   

But paying for higher education can also be an added stress.

One local organization has been helping students for almost two decades now, and we are just days away from one of its biggest fundraisers- on the links.

Amineh AlBashaireh is one student who is benefiting from this year’s classic.

She’s an environmental enthusiast, a passion that would lead AlBashaireh, 18,  of Solon to major in geology at the College of Wooster.

But getting there would be a test of human strength, courage and determination.

At just nine years old, Amineh would have to deal with not one, but two family tragedies.

Amineh’s mother was diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome. She survived, but during her recovery, Amineh’s father was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

Dealing with the death of her father, Amineh’s mother was never 100 percent again.

Laid off from her teaching job, Amineh’s mother was diagnosed with depression which then led to suicidal tendencies.