Subinuer Aikebaier and Thomas Ahern. Subinuer spoke to dinner guests about her determination to leave western China and come to the United States, her struggle with homelessness here and her successful quest to graduate from high school and pursue a college education. The audience applauded when she said she will attend the University of Virginia this coming year. Thomas and Marcella Ahern are her guardians. Photo by Richard Mumford/Gazette Packet
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At the 30th Anniversary Spring Gala of the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria were seven scholarship winners, all students of the International Academy at T. C. Williams High School, from left, Daniel Villarroel, Jesusina Abankwa, Isha Rashida Sankoh, Eyosias Agonafer, Subinuer Aikebaier, Nada Elhawary and Melak Alradhi.