Below are 3 more individuals currently being sponsored. Keep in mind, all of these kids are covered financially through the end of this school year, however, there is not enough funding for all of them to continue and complete next year, which begins in October. Georges was hoping to increase the number of Congolese youth they give scholarship money to (as a result of their own fundraising efforts selling rice- more on this later), but they were not able to generate enough due to the insecurity caused by the threat of the Ugandan rebels in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) (This link on LRA will take you to a 20-minute video, "Inside the LRA", even if you watch just the first 3 minutes it will give you a clear picture of what the victims of this brutal war are dealing with). Now the program can only hope to give priority to those who have already started it, including these 3 students:
Massambra is 19 years old. He knows nothing about his parents. He has never seen his father and his mother died when he was 8 years old. He is studying stonework / masonry.
Chantal Sara, 22 years old. She got pregnant in her last year of high school. Abandoned by the father of her baby, who was a married man, she suffered greatly. After giving birth, we helped her restart the year and she finished high school in 2007. Since last year she has been studying commercial sciences in the superior school at Isiro.
Charly Nangumbie, 24 years old. After finishing high school with excellent notes, she spent 3 years not knowing what she can or should do with her life. She got pregnant during this period. At last we gave her a second chance and sent her to study laboratory in superior school.
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