We wanted to share with you, the stories of seven children whose lives have been changed by the kind support of seven people who wanted to make a difference to a child in need. Each is story of the real success that child sponsorship can bring in changing the lives of underprivileged children in Africa. To learn more and to sponsor a child in Africa visit our website. It costs from as little as £6.50 per month to change a life forever.
Motale Blaise
Motale Blaise- came top of his class!
Motale Blaise was a little 10 year old intelligent boy who was at his final year in primary school when we found him. Blaise lost his father and his mother is unemployed and could not afford to register him for the final year exam which meant that he was at risk of not sitting for the exam and going on to secondary school.
Thankfully, we found Motale a sponsor and he emerged as the best pupil in his Common Entrance exam centre. Motale now has the ambition of becoming an engineer and with the continuous help from his sponsor, he is pursuing his dream.
Sabina Bih Mongo
Sabina Mongo now has new "guardian"
Sabina’s father died when she was just fours years old in 2008, leaving her to be looked after by her mother who struggles to make any kind of income by being a peasant farmer and petty trader. Their living conditions are desperate.
Sabina did not go to school but helped her mother by selling food on the streets. Her mother and Sabina desperately want her to go to school like the other children in her community and she knows that eventually Sabina will need to support the family in her later life.
The Guardian Network Africa found Sabina a sponsor – a little girl called Mika who is not much older than Sabina- who had forgone recieving her birthday presents to help Sabina. Now Sabina is enrolled in school and can look forward to a brighter future.
Nadesh Kudi Kakon
Nadesh - back at school and rebuilding her life
Nadesh is a very intelligent orphan who always tops her class. Despite her brilliant results, she had to repeat year 5 in primary school because her care-taker (aunt) could not afford the extra cost of about £20 to register her for the First School Leaving exam.
Only last year, Nadesh’s aunt died and with no one else to sponsor her, Nadesh was forced to drop out of school one month to the end of term. She went to live with her uncle in Wotutu village and joined the struggle for survival with ten of her other cousins under his care.
With the help of her teachers, our Child Support Manager, Orock, found her just two weeks before her end of year exam living under deplorable conditions, and got her back to school by finding her a sponsor. She was able to move on to the next class where she would pass her Common entrance with flying colurs. Nadesh is now in secondary school.
Mdajong George Mukwe
George -given a second chance by The Guardian Network Africa
At the tender age of eleven, George lost both his parents and had to go live with his uncle in Douala. However, George was not sent to school to complete his primary education and was ill-treated by his uncle. He ran away and went to live with his aunt who works as a housemaid in Limbe. But because she could not look after him with her meager wage, George found a job as a house help in exchange for food and shelter.
George has two younger siblings residing with other relatives in their village, whom he is directly responsible for, but cannot do much to help them under his circumstances.
We felt that George’s childhood was stolen and wanted to give him the chance he had unfairly missed to better his future. We found George a sponsor and a mentor, and now George is looking to start as an apprentice electrician, while still maintaining his house help job that provides him food and shelter.
Lois -Tracy Ngemba Tambe
Lois Tracy Ambe can now go to school
Lois-Tracy lost her dad when she was just one year old and her young widow mum, Felicitas, became a victim of a common cultural malpractice of suffering ill treatment from her family in law.
Felicitas was kicked out of her house, all their property seized and she was left alone with just a bed, a single room, no job, no husband and a baby to cater to.
For three years after her father’s death, Lois-Tracy and her mum lived hand to mouth trying to make ends meet but with very little success. Having had very little education herself, her mum has been unable to find work and is relying on help from other family members and good samaritans for food and basic needs.
Now Lois Tracy life has changed for the better and through the generous support of a sponsor she is now back at school, eagerly getting on with her primary school studies and looking to a brighter future.
Faithgreat Tendor
Faithgreat - Our most recent success story
Faithgreat Tendor is a smart and intelligent kid, but lacked the financial resources to support his education. His father abandoned him and his mother who is just 18 years of age. Both mother and grand mother find it very difficult to provide the basic needs of the child, talk less of education and medication.
Despite getting brilliant results and great praise from his teachers, Fathgreat Tendor stopped going to school when he was in nursery but thanks to a kind sponsor, Elvis Tabi Nimba, Faithgreat will once again be given the chance of going to school and living up to the great expectations that his school have of him.
Limunga Magdalene Mwambo
Limunga - reunited at school with her new classmates
Limunga is a 15 year old orphan who was raised by her grandmum. Being only one of nine children she was forced to drop out of school as her grandmum could no longer afford to send her to school. She had become too weak to cultivate and sell crops in the market – their only source of income.
But now, with the help of one of our sponsors, Limunga was able her primary education and is now enrolled into a technical secondary school in Limbe which will give her more chances of integrating into the community when she graduates.
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