For Estacado High School senior Kalayisha Abubakr, pursuing higher education was always a dream.
A local program developed by the Lubbock Betty Anderson Branch of The American Association of University Women made that dream a reality for her and her family.
Her grandmother, Delores Gardner, said her granddaughter has talked about going to college since age 7 or 8.
“I didn’t go to college, and neither did her mother,” said Gardner, who raised Abubakr since she was 4 years old. “Nowadays, you’ve got to have a college education to make it in this world.”