Our Sweet Charity!
“I was so excited on my first day of school. It was in January 2012 here at Young Peacemakers School. I was just so happy to start school. If I
finish studies, then I can become a nurse and help my mother support the rest
of my family,” Charity beams. Charity is
15 and entered Grade 3 as a first time student this year. Before school became affordable, thanks to
the low school fees at YPM, Charity spent her days as “mother” to her four
younger siblings while her widowed mother worked as a maid. “I still cook nshima, sweep, wash plates and
take care of my younger sisters and brothers, but now I go to school too. I want to learn to read so I can be a nurse
when I grow up.” Charity is also a
member of the Child Support Specialist Groups [trained by HealthEd Connect], which offer emotional support
sessions to orphans at YPM. “In CSS
Groups we learn to know each other, to love each other and to help each
other. I didn’t have any friends here at
school because I was new, but now my favorite friend Esther is in the group
with me. It helps me to feel better.” Reported by Lisa Ash
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