Patricia

St. Anne Junior school Wanyama, Uganda

To upscale our work beyond Amaimo to more communities across Sub-Saharan Africa, we have now launched the Child Sponsorship Scheme, an offshoot of our Community Sponsorship Programme. We’re reaching out to some of our generous sponsors for financial support and working together with our new partners in Ghana, Uganda and Sierra Leone to enrol children into school in these countries.

Pictured above is Patricia, one of the first beneficiaries of our Child Sponsorship Scheme. Patricia is six years old and the 5th child of a single mum  She loves Mathematics and counting numbers and dreams of becoming a doctor when she grows up. When playing with her friends, she loves to draw pictures and tell stories.

However, along with her three other siblings, Patricia was not yet enrolled in school when we connected with her through our partner organisation, Akamwenhu Initiative Uganda.She and her siblings are being raised by a single mother who sustains her family by hawking pancakes in her village of Wanyama, Uganda, with a family income barely enough to feed all the children.

We’ve now enrolled Patricia in St. Anne Junior school, Wanyama, and she has commenced her journey to achieving her dream to become a doctor. Particia’s school fees and other learning costs are being financed by one of our generous sponsors.

We’re happy to journey along with Patricia and proud to see her smartly dressed in her brand new school uniform.

Baraka

St. Anne Junior school Wanyama, Uganda

Baraka is the 9th child of a polygamous family of 12 children.His mother mum passed away when he was just a baby, leaving him in the care of relatives who had no means to sustain him. Soon he was homeless on the streets. Our partners, Akamwenhu Initiative Uganda, came across Baraka through a local woman who had volunteered to accommodate him for a night. They embarked on a search for his relatives and eventually traced Baraka’s grandmother.

Baraka lived with his grandmother for a short time until another sympathetic family offered to take him into their home to enable him to commence learning closer to a local school. Baraka’s dream is to be a teacher and with the opportunity granted by EVM, he hopes, when he grows up, to help educate many kids in his local community.

Baraka loves making friends and counting numbers.

Fatima Sesay

Saint Martin’s Primary School Congowo, Sierra Leone

Fatima is 5 years old and comes from a quaint village nestled between rolling hills and a whispering forest. Coming from a very deprived and vulnerable family background, Fatima was taken in as a baby by a kind guardian, away from her parents who had health issues. She was adopted by a well-known businesswoman in her local community by the name of Gelajor. 

Gelajor was moved by Fatima’s situation and decided to take up the burden of bringing her up, and hoping with all her heart to put Fatima through primary school. Unfortunately she’s presently on a sick bed and cannot continue with her business and her illness has left her with no hope of supporting her own children let alone Fatima. Till recently, no one ever came forward to help her.

Fatima’s hope of continuing school has now been renewed through our Child Sponsorship Scheme, with the help of our partners The Jamil and Nyanga Jawad Foundation, who spotted Fatima and identified the need for immediate intervention in her vulnerable situation.

Musa

Saint Martin’s Primary School Congowo, Sierra Leone

8 year old Musa had no parental care, no support, and no proper monitoring before he was identified and selected by our partners to benefit from our Child Sponsorship Scheme.