Lehman Athletics

Where the American Dream Lives

A fundraising campaign for Lehman College

On Coming to America.

In 2013, the U.S. granted asylum to 25,199 people. That’s 25,199 people who left their countries of origin with the promise to never return. Sana Batool was one of them.

In 2011, Sana Batool was a young teenage girl living with her family in Quetta, Pakistan when a suicide bomb attack just two blocks from her home changed everything. Many in the community were killed and hundreds more were injured. The violence had hit too close to home for the Batool family, who eventually sought and won asylum in the U.S. In 2013, Sana and her family moved to Queens where they slowly settled into their new life in America. No longer bound by the restrictions of a traditional culture, Sana began to explore a future that all of a sudden had unlimited possibilities. Today she is pursing a degree in biochemistry at Lehman College, with aspirations of becoming a cardiologist.

Sana was recently selected to receive a St. Georges Scholarship. And what that means to her is that she no longer has to hold down a full-time job while she pursues her degree. Now she has time to focus on her studies, conduct extracurricular research, and volunteer in her community.
With this support Sana can learn more, do more, and move ahead toward her goal.

Your gift will help transform the lives of students like Sana, so they too can realize their American dreams.

Lehman Athletics

On Coming to America.

In 2013, the U.S. granted asylum to 25,199 people. That’s 25,199 people who left their countries of origin with the promise to never return. Sana Batool was one of them.

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