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Angel Salvador Gaona Rojas
$350 of $350 donated
Paraguay
Angel is an incredibly intelligent, dedicated and motivated student, who works hard to reach his goal of becoming a doctor to help his community. He says that he hopes to help his community, and consequently help his country, and he realizes that studying a lot is the most efficient path to reach that goal. Angel would most like the change the poverty in his community because seeing the extreme poverty around him with many people going without food or basic necessities makes him sad.
Brenda Lacan
$300 of $300 donated
Solola, Guatemala
14-year old Brenda is from the small city of Santiago, Atitlan. Santiago the epicenter of the Tzutijil Mayan group and is also the largest indigenous-run city in Central America. Brenda’s first language was Tzutijil and she learned Spanish in school. Brenda’s mother Maria is illiterate and never attended school. She recalls how her parents would hide her under the bed during door-to-door school recruitment campaigns. Brenda’s maternal grandfather believed that an education would be wasted on his daughters and that they were better off working to support the family. Maria worked as a domestic servant from the age of 9 to help support her poor parents, and was severely mistreated on several occasions. Maria was a teenage bride and mother- yet she still vowed that her daughters would get an education to avoid a similar fate. Brenda is the youngest of 7 siblings. Her father, who studied until the 3rd grade, makes a meager living repairing school uniforms. Her mother does some embr...
Shaiza Anam
$450 of $450 donated
Pakistan, Pakistan
Shiza Anam, a six year old girl, is living with her mother, two brothers and two sisters in red light area Lahore. Her mother is sex worker who hardly earns an amount of Rs. 7000/ month (US $ 83 / month) from prostitution. With this limited income she is hardly able to meet the daily expenses of food and other requirements of the family. Her mother is not able to bear the expenses of her education and health care. Her two sisters and two brothers are also not going to school as her mother is not in a position to bear the expense of their educations. Her mother wants her to be a prostitute in future but she does not want to be a prostitute. She wants to get an education and to become a teacher in her life. She thinks that education is the best way to fight against deprivations, poverty and to get rid of the prostitution. But her mother does not have enough resources for her education. She does not know about her father as her mother is a sex worker. Her mother also does not know abou...
Concepcion Xep
$300 of $300 donated
Solola, Guatemala
Concepción and her family are from the small city of Santiago, Atitlán. Santiago is the epicenter of the Mayan Tzutujil group, and Tzutujil is Concepción’s mother tongue. Like the majority of indigenous women, Concepción’s mother never attended school, nor did her father. Both are illiterate and unable to speak Spanish. Concepción’s mother married at 16 and began having children at 17. The predictable yet devastating cycle of poverty has produced 9 living children (2 that died under the age of 2). It took everything that both Concepción and the family had to get her through the 6th grade. Concepción is starting the 8th grade this year and is in her second year of the Starfish One by One program. Starfish One by One provides Concepción with a partial scholarship that ensures her access to secondary school (this is provided by an individual donor). This small scholarship is a critical component of Concepción’s ongoing education. However, Concepción still faces many d...
Regina S
$250 of $250 donated
Monrovia, Liberia
Regina was found sleeping on a dirty cement floor in a coal warehouse where rats and cockroaches play. She had no blanket and only owned the ripped t-shirt she wore. Her mother has a mental health illness and her father passed away during the war. In 2004, Regina moved in with a foster mother, Florence, in Sinkor. Regina and Florence were connected through More than Me. Regina is now attending school through a scholarship by the organization. Florence, her guardian, has 3 biological children and has adopted 5 other children with similar stories as Regina. Florence is single and runs a small bakery to support her family. Regina is shy, introverted, and doesn’t speak much. When she first moved in with Florence, she would steal and skip school, pretending that she went. She showed signs of trauma, but over time, she has started playing with other children and now attends school regularly.
Elementary School Uniforms
$115 of $540 donated
Guanajuato, Mexico
The girls at Buen Pastor go to a public school here in Guanajuato, in which a uniform is required. When they are wearing a uniform, they look like all the other kids. In a uniform no one can tell if your parents cannot afford to buy new clothing. They don’t know that you spend the rest of the day in ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, at $26 per uniform, many parents cannot afford the uniforms, placing the burden of buying them on Buen Pastor. This project will provide each girl with a skirt, a blouse, a sweater, a polo shirt and a pair of shorts.
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