For Grace ‘Sabanto’ Simon, early failure paved road to success

Grace Simon on the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway

Grace Simon, now the community liaison with ExxonMobil Guyana, says her passion for helping people is what motivated her to pursue studies in areas that help people.

Simon nee Roberts, 52,She is the holder of a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree even though she had not the requirements needed to gain entry to a university when she left high school.

“I am the last sibling and the only one to have gone to high school, to university and the only one to receive a Bachelor’s and a Master’s…,” she said adding, “Who would have thought that from coming from Dolphin Community High School, I would have ended up at a prestigious university with my late blind grandfather words still ringing in my ear, ‘You passed. You passed.’ When in reality I had failed at the common entrance exams,” Simon told Stabroek Weekend during a recent interview.