A high school senior has selflessly donated her Harvard scholarship to another student.
Per NBC News Boston, 17-year-old Fitchburg High School student Verda Tetteh was awarded a $40,000 scholarship by the academy to attend the prestigious ivy league university.
Take a look at this news report on the teen's incredible display of generosity:However, Tetteh, who plans on majoring in chemistry, had already received several other smaller scholarships and additional financial aid to attend her freshman classes next fall.
This made her decide to turn down the large sum of money offered to her by her high school. Instead, she asked for the district to give it to someone else.
Tetteh, whose family immigrated to the United States from Ghana when she was just eight years old, made this announcement after being presented with the school's general excellence award at her graduation ceremony held on June 4.
In a speech made before the school faculty and her graduating classmates, Tetteh stated that she wanted to contribute to someone else's education, since her own mother, Rosemary Annan, also attended a community college.
Per NBC, Tetteh stated in her public address: "I am so very grateful for this but I also know that I am not the one who needs this the most.
"Knowing my mom went to community college, and how much that was helpful, I would be so very grateful if the administration [...] would consider giving the general excellence scholarship to someone who's going to community college.
"It is such a great honor, but I also know that I am not the most in need of it."
Her teachers and fellow students were reportedly so touched by her incredible altruistic gesture, that they Tetteh a standing ovation.
Commenting on her daughter's kind deed in a later interview, Rosemary Annan stated: "That touched my heart. I would do that, I know I would do that. She's learned from me over the years. I'm really proud of her, she's come a long way."
Meanwhile, Fitchburg High School Principal Jeremy Roche stated: "What she did, it represents the best of humanity, in a sense."
