Coursera Financial Aid - How to Apply

In most of the Coursera courses provides financial aid, enable makes one to access the course material and earn certificate at NO COST.

But you will be asked these 2 questions while applying for financial aid, I have pasted my answers to it. (To help you out)

Reason you applied for aid?

Hello, my name is Daaris Ameen and I live in India, which is in the developing stage. I'm applying for Financial Aid for the course UI/UX design - Meta because I do not have any special source of income and I don't earn enough money and I can't afford the full tuition at this time of my life and career. Receiving Financial Aid for this course will help me get valuable knowledge in "Principles of UI/UX design", and I searching for a job for a long time for earning money for taking this course, and I do not find yet, and the time goes on, and receiving financial aid will allow me to focus on my studies and by taking it to allow to take off a paid internship and can take another course in UI developer path. I want to invest in my career and my education, but at this moment I can only invest my time to increase my knowledge and advance in my career and not the money. Hopefully, this will change in the upcoming years because I'm ambitious, I want to increase my programming knowledge and new technologies, and I'm eager to work and advance in my career.

How will taking this course help you achieve your career goals? (150 words minimum required)?

I have a solid background in "design, IOS, and Web dev skills", so I am eager to learn "principles of UI/UX design" and that's the course the first step for me to making good projects that help humanity to lead an easy life and solve the big problem. My main career goal is to learn every day, I really want to learn and progress in my career. "Dev skills" require constant learning and improving, and taking a course can help me advance my knowledge.

I plan on gaining additional skills by taking related classes and continuing my involvement with a variety of professional associations, I noticed that there are a lot of company provides internship and jobs in the related field, and I would certainly be interested in taking them and improving my self to be on of the pioneer of "UI/UX design" There are many opportunities in this field that the candidate can join but must have good knowledge to join these opportunities, so I see that this course with good tutorials and exercises to join me in the world's largest companies and creativity in this area.