Maldangesang is a Junior College student at the University of Hawaii in Hilo and taking up BS Psychology.
Maldangesang’s mother, Zena Maldangesang accepted the $500 check on her daughter’s behalf.
The money was awarded on Wednesday by Didil Belau President Tua Tmetuchl and Treasurer Carol Emaurois.
Tmetuchl said that every year they are giving scholarships to deserving students and this has been going on for ten years now.
She said they reviewed Maldangesang’s application and she qualified to the requirements.
“We are happy to award her scholarship and we hope that she can finish her studies and come back to Palau to help and to share to the community what she had learned from school,”Tmetuchl said in an interview.
Maldangesang’s mother in a separate interview said that she and her family are very grateful to the money because it will be a big help to her daughter’s education.
“She is planning to take up master’s degree after her graduation next year and come back here to work if she could find job here,” Zena Maldangesang said.
Jocelyn Maldangesang graduated valedictorian at the Palau Mission Academy in 2006. She is a recipient of a Palau National Scholarship.
She is the eldest daughter of Zena and husband Allen Maldangesang, a law enforcement officer at the Bureau of Marine Law Enforcement Office.
She has two siblings, Jennie Emmanuel, 20, who is also a student at the University of Hawaii in Hilo taking up BS Biology and Josiah Emmanuel, 18, a senior high school student at PMA.
The Maldangesang are from Ngarechlong State.
