Help a Tanzanian Orphan Complete Primary School

As the GLK Student Fund focuses its energies in 2014 on our female students, we'd like to introduce our newest scholarship candidate, Suzana.

Suzana is 7 years old. She attends a public primary school and is in the first grade. Suzana has high sense of perception and reasoning for her age. She is clever and quick. She is full of curiosity and wants to know and learn about things and has a maturity of some sort that is not so common for her age.  She is charming.

She lost her father in July 2013 and is the only child of her mother, Sima, who is 32 years old.  After the death of her husband, Sima was forced to move from their rental room after the rent expired. She has no solid income and therefore, she cannot afford to pay rent even for a single room.  The husband died before they could collect enough money to buy a plot of land which is the goal of most Tanzanian families.  A plot of land secures a home and the means to grow food.  Sima and Suzana moved in with Sima's sister and they live in a small one bedroom flat in the Kashura area of Bukoba.  Sima has a bad case of hypertension.  However, whenever she is able and feels strong, she plaits hair and earns a little money to contribute to her upkeep.

Suzana would very much like to join an English Medium school. Her mother would love to have her daughter in a good school but for her it is only a dream since she cannot afford to pay school fees for such a school.

Please help to make the wish of Suzana materialize and her mother's dream come true.

Links:

• GLK Student Fund