Dreams of an education become a reality

With the discovery of the new slum area on the weekend, Kemsour, New Hope’s Managing Director, made an offer to the village chief to educate the children in English, maths and vocational studies, providing them with an opportunity that these families could only dream of before now. 

It was with much excitement that some 50 new students of all sizes and ages arrived to register for school on the Tuesday, following the King’s birthday holiday.  It was such an amazing moment to see them arrive on mass, wearing their best clothes, having walked probably an hour to get to the school.  Those whose mother’s accompanied their children were beaming from ear to ear.  Others were accompanied by older siblings or who knows who else.  Can you imagine not turning up to your child’s first day because you had to work so you wouldn’t starve that night?

So, New Hope has another 50 beautiful but completely illiterate children to educate and provide with bikes, exercise books and pencils, let alone the sponsorships that will now be required to feed these people.