'I came across your story online and am so inspired by your drive and dedication to turning your dreams into reality,” Taylor Swift wrote to 18-year-old Vitoria Mario.
Taylor Swift has donated £23,000 to help a London-based student achieve her dream of becoming a mathematician.
Though she lives in Tottenham, north London, she explains on the page that she is ineligible for government funding because she moved to the UK from Portugal four years ago. “My family are low income, and unable to help me self-fund through university,” she adds Mario also writes on her fundraising page that she has “always been a studious person” and says that “after coming to the U.K. in 2016, unable to utter a word in English, I achieved 100% A*-As in all my GCSEs in 2018, getting a grade 9 and 8 in Maths and English respectively”.
After coming across Mario’s page online, Swift donated the £23,373 that the future mathematician still needed to reach her £40,000 target.
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