in june, darnella frazier was awarded a special pulitzer prize for producing the single most important piece of video journalism, which then became the most important piece of evidence in the most consequential case of police use of deadly force in history. coming up, a teenage girl in malawi who many of you met on this program five years ago is now much closer to achieving her dream of becoming a doctor. the remarkable joyce chisali is now a student at the university of malawi college of medicine. joyce will tell us how it s going next in tonight s last word. tonight s last word. visibly diminish wrinkled skin in. crepe corrector lotion. only from gold bond.
by little . little by little? yeah. little by little will go no matter how far the distance is, we are not shaken. little by little we ll go and reach our destination. little by little we ll go, no matter how bumpy the road is, we are not going to turn back. little by little we ll go no matter how narrow the path is, we are going to force ourselves to pass, and little by little we ll go and reach the promised land, don t turn back, little by little you ll go and reach your destination. joyce has reached the next stop on the road to her destination, and a few days ago she told us how it s going in her first year at university of malawi, college of medicine. my journey at the university for my first year has been good. it has been exciting. it has been adventurous as well as stressful because there s a
five years ago on this program we introduced you to the remarkable joyce chisale who was 13 years old and had just been sent home from her high school because her family couldn t pay the school fee. public high school is not free in malawi. when i met joyce, i told her she wouldn t have to worry about school fees anymore because thanks to your generosity, she would receive a scholarship from the kind fund, kids in need of desks. the partnership i created between msnbc and unicef to deliver desks to schools in malawi and provide scholarships for girls to attend high school. joyce told me on the day we met that she wanted to be a doctor and a poet and then recited a poem that many of you will never forget. my poem is entitled little
about the kem reactions, yeah, the chemical equations. and now it s time for joyce s first college exams. i ll be studying end of year examinations soon. there s some things that are difficult, but it s been wonderful for having friends to help me. to discuss things with. so i ll be very glad to finish my foundation year so that i can actually start my first year of medical sciences. you can help other students achieve their dreams and your dreams for them by going to lastworddesks.msnbc.com. you can give a desk or a girl scholarship as a gift to anyone on your holiday gift list. no contribution is too small. joyce made me promise that she would get this last word tonight
lot of work. yeah, the workload is very huge as compared to the workload we had at high school. so yeah, it has been stressful. it s been wonderful at the same time, i ve learned a lot of new ways on how to manage my time, how to tackle my workload. yeah, it has been good. joyce has the enthusiasm for her class s of a student who feels very lucky to be there. my classes here have been biology, chemistry as well as mathematics. in biology i ve been excited it has been exciting because, yeah, we learned a lot of things about the human anatomy, went deeper. it has been good and chemistry has been challenging. need to go and find out more