Trini student studying social work gets Sinnette-Nguyen Scholarship

Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al Yamine Trot­man has been award­ed the Sin­nette-Nguyen Schol­ar­ship for the aca­d­e­m­ic year 2025–2026.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI) Glob­al Cam­pus, in an ar­ti­cle on its web­site, said Trot­man is cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence de­gree in So­cial Work and has dis­tin­guished her­self through ex­em­plary com­mu­ni­ty out­reach as the founder of Healed Me, Heal­ing You Min­istry, a phil­an­thropic or­gan­i­sa­tion that pro­vides men­tal health sup­port to women. She al­so serves as Vice Pres­i­dent, Pro­gram­ming and Vol­un­tarism, of The UWI Stu­dent To­day Alum­ni To­mor­row (STAT) Glob­al Cam­pus Corps.

The schol­ar­ship is award­ed to a na­tion­al of T&T who is cur­rent­ly en­rolled in an un­der­grad­u­ate pro­gramme at The UWI Glob­al Cam­pus and has demon­strat­ed ex­cep­tion­al aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment and com­mu­ni­ty in­volve­ment. Fol­low­ing a com­pet­i­tive se­lec­tion process, Trot­man emerged as an out­stand­ing can­di­date whose ac­com­plish­ments and as­pi­ra­tions ex­em­pli­fy the schol­ar­ship’s val­ues and ob­jec­tives.

Ac­cord­ing to The UWI Glob­al Cam­pus ar­ti­cle, the schol­ar­ship donor, Tisha Sin­nette-Nguyen, who re­sides in Mass­a­chu­setts, USA, not­ed that “This schol­ar­ship is fund­ed in lov­ing mem­o­ry of my par­ents, Nel­son Sin­nette and Yvonne Sin­nette, who placed a high val­ue on ed­u­ca­tion and its pow­er to trans­form lives. It is both an ho­n­our and a priv­i­lege to con­tin­ue their lega­cy by award­ing this schol­ar­ship to a de­serv­ing re­cip­i­ent who re­flects their val­ues—demon­strat­ing grit, per­se­ver­ance, and re­silience in the face of chal­lenges.”

The UWI Glob­al Cam­pus ac­knowl­edged with grat­i­tude the gen­er­ous con­tri­bu­tion of Sin­nette-Nguyen in sup­port­ing tal­ent­ed and de­serv­ing stu­dents. Her com­mit­ment to ex­pand­ing ed­u­ca­tion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties will con­tin­ue to make a mean­ing­ful dif­fer­ence in the lives of stu­dents in T&T.

In the ar­ti­cle, Pro Vice-Chan­cel­lor and Prin­ci­pal Dr Fran­cis O Sev­erin hailed the schol­ar­ship as a pos­i­tive de­vel­op­ment.

“Ms Yamine Trot­man needs to be cel­e­brat­ed, and I am grate­ful to Mrs Tisha Sin­nette-Nguyen, a good friend of the Glob­al Cam­pus, for recog­nis­ing Yamine in that re­gard. Oth­ers can learn so much from our de­serv­ing stu­dent in terms of her pub­lic ac­tivism, com­mu­ni­ty spir­it and good ‘cit­i­zen­ship’ in be­ing the ‘orig­i­na­tor’ of a phil­an­thropic or­gan­i­sa­tion that of­fers men­tal health sup­port to women. This is com­mend­able, and the ur­gent need for such in­ter­ven­tions can­not be un­der­es­ti­mat­ed. I wish her ab­solute suc­cess as she strives to be the best so­cial work­er that she can be.”

The UWI Glob­al Cam­pus ex­tend­ed heart­felt con­grat­u­la­tions to Trot­man on what it de­scribed as a well-de­served achieve­ment.