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Jianping He (何建平)
$280 of $280 donated
Sichuan, China
Like many in my village, I did not own my first set of clothing until I was five years old. My family had been too poor to buy cloth. My family rents fields from others, and my father works a second job as a manual laborer downtown. My family must pay tuition for my brother and me – I am in middle school and my brother is in elementary school. During one tough time, I dropped out of class for a semester because my family couldn’t afford my tuition fee. Originally, I lived in a remote rural area, from where children would walk five hours to get to school since public transportation was not available. My old home was about 5 miles away from my current school. Everyday, I had to walk for an hour and a half to get to school. Because my parents wanted my brother and me to be closer to school, we decided to move, and found a nice neighbor willing to rent some farmland out. Unfortunately, the weather was very bad. When there was a storm, my family would have nothing to eat for several ...
Guangen Shen (申关根)
$200 of $200 donated
Sichuan, China
I was born in a small remote village, nestled in the mountains. Although I long to visit the big cities, my village lacks developed roads. People in my village either do farm work or hard labor. The only source of income in my family is the money earned by my father. Unfortunately, when I was little, I fractured my right arm, and in order to afford my medical expenses, his family had to borrow money from neighbors. To pay for tuition fees of both my sister and me, my father had to find a second job. The work was hard to find because my father is illiterate. Like many other poor families who have children attending school, my family is heavily in debt. Despite my difficult circumstances, I love to read. Physics is my favorite subject. When I was in elementary school, I often borrowed physics textbooks from my older sister every time I went home. Since I lived approximately 8.3 miles away from my elementary, I could only go home once every three weeks. In middle school, I enjoyed phys...
Eric Kariri Wangechi
$220 of $220 donated
Central, Kenya
Eric was born in Othaya district to a single mother. In addition to caring for her children, his mother was the primary caregiver for her sister, who was living with HIV. One day, on a trip to visit her sister who was in the hospital being treated for an opportunistic infection, she arrived to find that her sister had passed away in the evening. This caused her to faint and go into shock, and subsequently die herself. This left Eric and his young sister Eva (also listed on Givology!) with no family to support them. Francis, the director of Baraka Children's Centre, heard the story of Eric and Eva, and agreed to take them in. Since arriving at the centre, they have been able to take advantage of many newfound opportunities. Eric is a strong student who always ranks near the top of his class, and has made good friends with the other children in school and at the center. He was also able to get a pair of glasses, which has fixed a recurring problem with headaches and should allow h...
Nougnito Benjamin
$15 of $65 donated
Atlantique, Benin
Benjamin is a 16 years old student and was in 7th grade at Tori when he met Cercle Social. He requested financial assistance from Cercle Social in December 2010, and is now in 9th grade with honor roll. His family is not able to afford his school tuition and fees so his tutor tries to help whenever he can.
Community Education Project
$405 of $4490 donated
Central Province, Sri Lanka
Over 80% of the children on this programme live on US$1 a day or less, the UN indicator of extreme poverty. The children are surrounded by a culture of alcoholism and violence against women, leading to high levels of deliberate self-harm and the fourth highest suicide rate in the world. The way out of this poverty is to gain jobs outside the tea plantations, but to have any chance of overcoming the ethnic bias against Indian Tamils, a good level of education, particularly English, is crucial. This education, however, is deliberately denied them by influential companies and government who wish to maintain the dependent workforce. This project will bring crucial education to remote tea-picking communities, deprived of equality and falling behind the rest of the country on every poverty indicator and seen as 3rd class citiziens. With government schools in the tea estate communities having the poorest facilities and the least qualified teachers, children are destined to leave school wit...
Victor Ouma
$250 of $250 donated
Nairobi, Kenya
After the deaths of both his parents and eldest brother, Victor had to take an leave of absence from school. However, Victor's motivation to keep learning and pursue his ambitions is undying even though he is short on tuition funds. With this drive to succeed, Victor writes how he wants to become a lawyer someday and is willing to work hard to achieve this goal.
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