Grateful for 12 months of love in 2025 — and already looking forward to 12 more in 2026. To give with the heart, and with the belief that knowledge is the most transformative force of all.
With deep affection, Be Better extends this letter to our beloved Donors, Teachers and Mentors, Volunteer Brothers and Sisters, and every compassionate heart that has quietly walked alongside the Foundation this past year — and above all, to the university and college scholars we support through long-term scholarships across the country, and to the high school students who have joined, or will soon join, our Mentorship Program.
Since 2022, Be Better has delivered 31 Mentorship Programs reaching 9,600 high school students, and has walked beside more than 100 university scholars through our “Change the Future” Scholarship. Nearly four years — a journey rich with emotion, built on the unwavering belief that the most enduring form of help is the kind rooted in knowledge and education.
2025 taught the Be Better Foundation something deeper about the word companionship.
Every milestone we reached across these 12 months was made possible only by the quiet solidarity of countless kind, warm, and generous souls.
Through our Mentorship Program — delivered in partnership with high schools and designed for students in their final two years — the Foundation hopes that each piece of wisdom and real-world experience shared may stay with the students long after the sessions end. Our wish is that they move beyond simply thinking about a “job” after graduation, and instead begin to develop a richer, more intentional vision of their own future. With the right perspective, they can make their own choices — in their own way, suited to their own circumstances — and grow into whoever they most aspire to become.
Through the “Change the Future” Scholarship — shaped by application letters, interviews, and home visits — Be Better has been privileged to look closely into the lives of each student we support. Behind their words, and sometimes their tears, lie dreams that are deeply real, deeply tender, and deeply deserving of wings. And the joy only deepens when the Foundation gets to walk beside these students as they transform, semester after semester, through bi-annual conversations held twice a year after each term. One scholar once wrote to us: “I will study as hard as I can, so I will not disappoint those who believed in me.”
The trust and companionship of our Donors, Teachers, and Volunteers mean the world — to Be Better, and to the thousands of students who carry their lives forward because of it. Every contribution, whether of time, resources, or heart, is love entrusted to Be Better so that we may act: reaching the right students, at the right moment, with transparency, integrity, and wholehearted dedication. That is the guiding light that reminds us, every single day, to be better than yesterday — and to prove ourselves worthy of the trust we are so blessed to carry.
Be Better offers its most sincere gratitude for the 12 months of love we have journeyed through together — and holds firm to the belief that 2026 will bring us 12 more: warmer, fuller, and more joyful than ever before.
The Be Better Foundation extends its warmest wishes to our beloved Donors, Teachers, Mentors, Volunteers, Collaborators, University Scholars, and High School Students — those we have walked alongside and those we have yet to meet. May the New Year 2026 bring you abundant health, lasting peace, and the kind of happiness that sustains you as you live, learn, and tend to the dreams and aspirations that make life meaningful.
