MY HOME SCHOOL...AND MORE LIKE THESE

We used to wake up with great hopes and now
they do. They hope that they will one day be
nurses, journalists, doctors, teachers, lawyers.... you name it. Their dreams are just like those of other children but the circumstances so much different. They have the desire and the will but they lack the means. This is the daily life of most children from my community.

Most of us wanted to take in what the teacher said but sometimes it was so difficult because of the hunger and the fatigue and now these children go through the same thing. Most of these children walk miles and miles just to get to school. Most of them will probably just have one meal a day. Despite all this, they choose not to despair and they will not lose hope because we before them did not.


Our teachers.....we are proud of them, more than they know. There face
so many odds but they choose to do what God has called them to do. Just like their pupils they trek long distances just to get to school. They gave us hope back then and they continue to give hope to our sisters, bothers, cousins, friends and children.. They teach and pray that some day things will get better. They hope that someday one of us will be courageous enough and ask for help.



We went to school without shoes, books and pens.
Now they do. Many a times we went to school feeling cold because it had rained the whole night, and after school we would walk home under an unforgiving sun and now they do. I so desperately know that if they hang in there things will some day be okay. I so desperately want them to know that with an education they can dine with kings and queens. With an education they can take control of their future. With an education they can give back to the community and collectively we can build our community. Children...you will make it because we did.