By Nzaramba Thaddee | Partnership Coordinator
Dear friends and supporters!
I hope you are doing well and staying in good health with your loved ones wherever you might be across our global village!
We, Les Enfants de Dieu (EDD) family are thrilled to keep you posted of what has been going on in our program of education sponsorship for former street children. This is progressive report regards our project of Education Sponsoring program for 238 students who are studying in different education levels (Primary: 73% students, Secondary: 23% students and Vocational Training: 4% students)
Below is some of the great achievement we have recently achieved together!
One of our boy called Gratian who successfully went through our former rehabilitation program and supported him from primary up to completion of high school, have recently graduated from University of Mount Kenya where he successfully completed Bachelor’s degree in education which is the career of his passion. And he is now working as a teacher in one of local private school.
Again, below is another great achievement in our exciting journey of transforming street children into valuable remembers of society, one of the boy named Emmanuel who was studying in ordinary level last year sat for national examination and he successfully passed the national exam with first grade category then he was admitted to continue in Advance level of high school whereby he is now studying in option of computer system. Below is his story:
In his own word, Emmanuel shared his story
“I was born in family of 5 children and I am the first born, in the poverty stricken condition, my family tried their best to help me start primary education and I studied until primary three (P3), at the end of first term when other pupils were receiving school reports, teacher, told me I should not be given my report marks because school fees was not paid yet .and I went home unhappy ,arrived there I told my parents what happened to me , that I was not given my school report due to the fact that they had not paid school fees yet. Suddenly, they not only reacted negatively but also accused me of having been given school fees and spent it on my own wants instead of depositing it to the school ,I did not know why they accused me so ,therefore as none understood me I decided to leave my family and went in street at age of 11years.
After three first night at street I became familiar with harsh homeless kind of life that I could not go back home, One day a group of catholic religious ladies (nun) who knew about EDD passed by me on street where I was with other street kids and they asked us, If we could accept to go back to school once we were offered opportunity, I did not hesitate to answer as I told them that I had been always ready for
school and once I could be given that chance I would take hold of it until it benefited me .They were glad to hear that and wrote my name, One year later, the catholic religious ladies came back and told us they had found an organization that help street children come out of street life and assist them with school materials and fees, that’s how I came to EDD.
It was in 2012 that I arrived at EDD whereby I was welcomed by social workers, educators as well as other kids who lived in the center, few days later, they assessed me with academic test whose result concluded that I had to go back in primary one (P1), and I resumed my studies by going a bit back two years ,and In 2014 I was reintegrated back into my family and continued my studies while staying with my family as EDD continued to support me with school materials and fees. It came to pass that I reached in primary six (P6) and sat for national exams and I successfully passed it and I went into secondary education one (S1), Last year I sat for national Ordinary level examination and I successfully passed it with grade one (1), and I am going to continue my upper level secondary studies in option of COMPUTER SYSTEM, despite the fact that I want to go very far in my studies, I always dream of becoming a businessman.
All I can say is thank you to EDD and all donors who support EDD, your great contribution to my life means more than I can say with words! “
We EDD know From our past experience, that education is one of the tremendous tool that transforms lives and we are very thankfully for your donations which is a great contribution in our exciting journey of transforming former street children’s lives into valuable members of society.
Thank you once again!
By Charles Hazabintwali | Executive Director
By Hazabintwali Charles | Executive Director
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