Howell Student Wins Ms. EduCare Contest, Scholarship

(Antoinette Gingerelli is crowned Ms. EduCare. Photo courtesy EduCare Foundation)

A college sophomore from Howell has been honored with a scholarship lauding her drive for an education despite challenges in her life.

Antoinette Gingerelli, a 2013 graduate of Freehold Township High School, was nameed Ms. EduCare by the EduCare Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young women by helping them reach their education goals.

Inspired by Malala Yousafzai, the young girl from Pakistan who was shot by terrorists for continuing to pursue an education who has become the worldwide face of the fight for the right to an education for girls and women, EduCare seeks to ” discover young women at local, regional and national levels through this platform who have also undergone daunting struggle in their lives but continued marching ahead for education,” according to the foundation’s website.

The hope is that the women will ”become role models for education as well as a potential agent for change. They will not only inspire the current generation of struggling students but also would be a step toward more shared prosperity.”

Gingerelli, who is majoring in political science with a concentration on women’s and gender studies, and minoring in Middle Eastern studies/international and global studies, is a member of the Honors College at Rutgers/Douglass.