Enhancing the Education of Needy kids with Books and Financial Help
By Aaron
Yancho kaah
Mbuyonghe Helen- a teenage
girl born out of matrimony was particularly in good spirits like the rest of
the 19 other needy kids and pupils from some 6 primary schools in the close
knit mountain village of Belo, September 4th 2016 after receiving assistance
of school needs and paid fee from an NGO
-Action for Social Empowerment and
Economic Development (ASEED).
Shortly before
receiving her gift of hope as a good will endowment from the investor of ASEED
Mr. Waindim Timothy Ntam, Helen a pupil, of Government Bilingual School Belo
sat dejected and looked slightly older than her age. Her long legs seem to
stretch her in to a world of her own. “This
pair of worn out blue gown I am wearing and sleepers where offered to her some
years ago by a Good Samaritan” Helen said. Barely incapable to answer any further
questions, this child of fate had also faced severe malnutrition in the near
past. Explaining Helens predications her head teacher Chiakou Jacinta remarked
that Helen fate was not actually hers.
But what happed?
Helen unlike
many other kids in this community is a product of a wedlock teenage relationship “born by a child with a child “as Jacinta
will further explained. “The misery in this family made this child to go
through life like a ghost” Jacinta remarked. A misery that saw them fending or living on a
next to nothing. Yet Helen had a daring will to pursue her education, an unperturbed
will that have seen her attending school almost every year without books, fee
or learning aid. “This rock on for years and caught our interest” Jacinta recounted.
Jacinta quest to know more about this 10 year young pupil shocked her to bones.
‘Helen was not only born out of wedlock but
her 19year old mother who was nursing a set of twin as well were more of
liabilities to this community because of limited resources and illiteracy
within their family lineage ”
Jacinta lamented. Most parents in this community dig the soil for corn and
beans but the harvest was not enough to source income for emergency needs or
good education for their children.
When
the good news arrived that ASEED will be
helping deprived kids in this municipality, Jacinta saw this as a golden
opportunity to help Helen and others like her in difficulty by enrolling them in the ASEED funding project,
for the 2016 academic year.
The story of
Helen provides a poster picture of the kind of kids and pupils who bagged home
ASEED gifts last September 4th. They were Pupils and kids born of struggling mothers and absentee
husbands , or children born of corn and beans desperate farmers, or albinos
kids neglected by family and friends or children orphaned or disable by this or
that. Bowing to these gifts one by each to collect school bags stocked with
books pens and pencils as well as test books, these special kids laughed and
smile with a look of pure joy in their faces to the cheers of their parents and
community members.
Speaking
to the invited guest, the parents and beneficiary kids and their families, Mr. Waindim
Timothy Ntam said their initiative which was not only aimed at fostering academic excellence in Belo sub
division, but had as aspirations to extend a hand of love to the needy in
memory of his deceased wife and founder of ASEED Madame Waindim Dorcas of blessed remembrance. Recounting a series
of events that led to the donations and the wish of the founder to better the
lives of the vulnerable in society, Mr. Waindim added that the task of keeping
this good will gesture of his angel wife could only be possible if all hands
were on deck. ‘You are our force and you
must join us to keep this flames alive” he exalted the audience. Mr.
Waindim in a moving and lovely memory to the founder of ASEED explained that
the capacity of the deceased to change the world transcends wonders and no
matter how hard the road was tough for ASEED to go, he and the other board
members were poised “to trod that
tortoise path in making a better world for the needy as she wished” he
added. While pledging continuous and immediate help
to the growing number of albino kids in that community, this patron of ASEED
promised to establish some ten birth certificates to some underprivileged kids and
pupils before the end of this school year.
In one of the
high moments of the event, the Benjamin’s of the waindim Ian-a form 2 student
of sacred heart college Mankon while handing over a distinguished gift behalf
of his deceased mum to one of the orphans from far away Konene called on the
beneficiary to settle for nothing less than good results. “Don’t disappoint my mum” Ian added to the applause of all. Other
speakers like Dr Ngam Confidence and elite of the sub division and board
chairman of ASEED urged the parents of the pupils and the kids to take up their
own responsibilities in ensuring that the gift were fully put to use and that
the education of these children was a priority. “It is now left for you to
complete the wish of ASEED “ Dr. Ngam ended The sub divisional delegate for
youth affairs for Belo, Nsom Genesis while acknowledging that they was a real physical
evidence to proof that the beneficiaries merited the gifts , further thanked
ASEED and its funders for putting the education
of the poor a priority. “Our hands and hearts are open to your support each
time you think of these needy kids” Genesis said.
The event was
attended by traditional dignitaries, university dons, NGO experts, the elite
core, media and politicians. Action for the Empowerment and Economic
Development is an NGO that was created in 2008 to promote human rights,
economic devt, and sustainable livelihoods in response to the plethora of
challenges faced by exposed youths, girls and women in today’s world.
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