[two_third]Age: 17
Form 4 (Grade 12) – January, 2018
School: St. Jude Secondary – Boarder
PA-MOJA Scholarship started: 2015 – Form 1 (Grade 9)
Sponsoring School: Abbotsford School for Integrated Arts (ASIA), Abbotsford, BC, Canada.
Perpetual lives with her mother, Mary, and her 4 siblings on a small shamba (farm). Perpetual’s father left the family when the children were young and never returned. Mary works as a laborer on her neighbour’s farms in order to make enough to feed her family and pay for their school supplies. Their small plot of land produces enough beans, maize and cabbage to feed the family providing there is no drought.
Life has been a struggle for Perpetual. She had to quit school in Class 8 (Grade 8) because her family could not find the money to pay for her uniform or school supplies. Perpetual describes this as the worst year of her life. She returned to school and repeated Class 8, earning the grades to enter St. Jude Secondary with a PA-MOJA scholarship.
Perpetual dreams of becoming a Mechanical Engineer. She wants to become successful so that she can support her mother and help put the rest of her siblings through school.
Perpetual has a message for her PA-MOJA donors: “I am humbled and deeply thankful to the PA-MOJA community for giving me this opportunity. I had no hope for my future before I heard the news that my school fees were being paid for by the kindness of others. I promise to work hard so that I can make my parents and donors proud. Thank you.”
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[one_third_last]August 2018 Update, Perpetual’s comment June 2018 [/one_third_last]
