Verukah Poirier, who grew up in government care, is now in law school at the University of British Columbia, and raising her two-year-old daughter, Avery.
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Verukah Poirier finished her first year of law school at the University of British Columbia in May, a feat she says would not have been possible without a provincial government program that waives tuition fees for students who grew up in government care.
Poirier, 23 and the single mom of a two-year-old daughter named Avery, did so well in her first year that she was awarded a full-ride scholarship of $18,000 to cover her second year.
“My grades must have been okay last year. I’m super lucky,” Poirier said. “I had to work a little harder, but it all paid off in the end.”
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