Fernando Dos Reis is a 25 years old man graduated from the Mass Communication School of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB). Fernando took the Journalism  specialization; he started the career in 2010 and finished it in 2015.

I studied at the U.E. Fe y Alegría ‘Andy Aparicio’, in La Vega, Caracas. More than once the programs offered by the UCAB at my school helped me, especially those related with math reinforcement, leadership camps and some sport activities.

I participated in the UCABMUN program, which later became the ‘Fundación Embajadores Comunitarios’.

Also, in my school I was part of the ‘Proniño’ program, offered by  by the UCAB and Telefónica, also known as Movistar.

All of this made me get closer to the UCAB, so I wanted to study there not only for its prestige but for the opportunities that the scholarship offered me.

Fernando received financial support during the whole career; he had a 100% scholarship given by the Andrés Bello Foundation.

I had the chance to get an absolute scholarship due to the social programs offered by the university and ‘Proyección a la Comunidad UCAB’.

This was a very meaningful opportunity for me, because I didn’t have the financial resources to pay for a career, besides the Mass Communication School has one of the most expensive fees in the university.

Another factor that motivated me was the prestige of the journalists who graduated from the UCAB, the best ones in the country have studied in this university.

Other aspects that captivated my attention were the UCAB social programs, its social commitment, its desire to help the community and make their students  get involved with the country needs beyond an academic point of view, but mostly the civic commitment. And that’s something that the UCAB promotes in every space.

Fernando kept participating in the UCABMUN program even after this organization changed into the Fundación Embajadores Comunitarios, place where he went through several coordination positions until he achieved the Sustainability Director position. Fernando worked there until January 2018.

What motivated me to work in the EMBAJADORES COMUNITARIOS was the opportunity to offer leadership, teamwork, public speaking and negotiation tools to young people with few resources. It was, besides this, my opportunity to pay back all that I had learned and all that social commitment that the university had awoken within me.