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A high school graduate in Ohio, who spent many years of her childhood living as a refugee in Uganda, has earned nearly a quarter of a million dollars worth of scholarships.

“I’ve worked really hard all of these years with taking college classes, being involved, and getting the scholarships is showing recognition that I did a lot, and the reward is what I get,” Juliane Lukambo said in a news release from Columbus City Schools.

Before becoming the recipient of $240,000 in scholarship funds, Lukambo spent 10 years in Uganda after her family fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo, per CBS affiliate WBNS.

"Due to the ongoing war, we had to move to Uganda as refugees, so that's where I spent most of my childhood," she told the outlet. "Life in the refugee camps was not easy."