Motale Blaise Etongwe
DOB 14th July 1999
Motale Blaise was a little 10 year old intelligent boy who was at his final year in primary school when we found him. Blaise has lost his father and his mother is unemployed.
Since his father died, they both live with Blaise's uncle who can only provide them shelter. And because his mother could not afford to register him for the final year exam, the First School Leaving Certificate (FSCL) exam, Blaise was at risk of not sitting for the exam that permits him to go into secondary school.
Thankfully, we found Motale a sponsor and he emerged as the best pupil in his FSCL exam centre. Motale wants to become an engineer. With the continuous help from his sponsor, he is now enrolled into a secondary school and contiunues to pursue his dream. Guardian Network Africa wishes to thank Kate for being a pioneer sponsor.
Limunga Magdalene Mwambo
DOB : 5th August 1993
Limunga Magdalene is a 15 year old orphan who was raised by her grandmum. Being only one of nine children left under the care of her grandmum, she was forced to drop out of school as her grandmum could no longer afford to send her to school, having become too weak to cultivate and sell crops in the market - their only source of income.
Last year, with the help of one of our sponsors, she was able to go back to school and completed her primary education.
This year she has enrolled in Secondary School and with the close support of Orock (her Child Support Manager), she continues to thrive.
Nadesh Kudi Kakon
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 which permits her to go to secondary school.
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. Nadesh was able to move on to the next class.
Orock even went further to negotiate better accomodation for Nadesh in a foster home. Nadege performed brilliantly in her FSLC exam and is now in a technical secondary school in Limbe to pursue her dream of becoming an accountant.
Mdajong George Mukwe
DOB: 1st January 1990
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. Orock managed to find him both 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.
SABINA BIH MONGO
DOB: 26th August 2004
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 brighter future.
LOIS -TRACY NGEMBA TAMBE
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 in Africa. From when her husband, the sole bread winner of the family, was hospitalized, Felicitas suffered ill-treatment from her family in-law. And when he eventually died, she was kicked out of her husband's 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.
Three years on 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.
This year we found Lois Tracy a sponsor and now she and her mum can begin to put their lives back together and start to build their future.
Faithgreat Tendor
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.
His mother could do little because she is from a very poor background and does not have money to start up a small business that could sustain her child and herself.
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.
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