Aurelia's friend: Emmanuel
on It began in Africa (Kenya), 28/Sep/2011 09:19, 34 days ago
Our friend and fellow volunteer Aurelia has written an excellent blog about her efforts to help her friend and swahili teacher, Emmanuel. Aurelia is trying to raise funds to help him become a qualified teacher.Here is a short excerpt from the blog:"Emmanuel is 27. His Tanzanian father left him and his siblings when he was young, returning to his homeland and favoured first wife. Emmanuel’s mother – his father’s second wife – raised the children alone, feeding them with the money from sporadic cleaning jobs, but she fell ill. At 16, Emmanuel was forced to drop out of school to look for work, doing anything and everything that brought home a few shillings. He joined a dancinggroup which entertained at weddings for KSH400 a time (£3); found casual work at a water park, walking the 1 ½ hours each way to save money on the bus fare so as not to dent his KSH250 (£2) a day fee; and rose at 5am some days to sell charcoal for KSH50 (35p). At the end of each day, the most hecould hope for was enough money to buy ugali and sukuma wiki for his family’s daily meal."You can read the Emmanuel's story in full here:http://aureliainkenya.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/getting-by-in-kenya-emmanuel-the-school-teacher/Please help if you can.