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Right now we are at
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we are at a danger of closing up because
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we cannot continue feeding kids
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and we cannot also send
them home just like that.
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Children cannot even concentrate in class
because they do not have food,
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even if it is just two serving spoons for the children,
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even if it is not going to be food,
at least for them to concentrate in class.
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In a world where education knows no bounds,
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where passion and determination triumph over obstacles,
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one extraordinary school stands tall
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among them all !
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the problem is financial ability
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When I was in Kenya, they told me about a special school
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where students are not only just students,
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but they can be teachers as well.
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students singing
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Welcome to Gilhada Academy School,
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a school where students of five years old
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are forced to stand in front of other colleagues and teach them.
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My name is Anaske Emutu
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Our teacher refused to come
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and I decided to teach my fellow students.
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I am five years old.
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This special school is located in Kitengela region,
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some 30 kilometres South of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.
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Looking at it from above, you can clearly see that its scrambling infrastructure
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but when you come closer, you cannot help but get stunned as the school’s classes are like this.
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But this is not a big problem,
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as more than 300 students gather here every day
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in order to get some education.
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How did this school start
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and why does it plan to close soon?
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This its extraordinarily story
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Excuse me Madam, may I Come in ?
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Yes Lucky, welcome
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hey! this is the school fees
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school fees lucky?. Yes.
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You've been sent home. Yes.
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okay
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How much is this?
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This young girl you see here is Mercy
and she is the daughter of the founder
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of this school and the Director of its day-to-day operations.
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Lucky. We cannot keep you in school.
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okay? Yes.
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You're still going to go back home, tomorrow
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You come back with Mom
okay? Yes.
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Because this is not even enough
to buy a sandwich.
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But it is fine.
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She is the one who makes sure that students
are ready for school at the right time,
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keeps records of their school fees
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and makes sure that they have eaten properly.
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OK, this will be for cereals
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And this is change
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tomorrow.
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okay, okay!
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WALEO? Yes.
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WALEO? Yes.
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Please go, rush use a motorbike
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Yes, we will.
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Buy.... Cabbage.
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She explained that the school started as a church
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before growing to accommodate students.
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when this school was started,
it was as a community school.
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It started as a church
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And the kids who came to the church
really needed an education.
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So we said, why not? We had a room.
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We started with that one room and
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it went on from there.
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In a matter of one year
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We had more than 200 children coming here
because of the food program
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that was running.
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The food program was having them lunch
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And then they would go home at first
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And then we began teaching
and it went on from there
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At first, the school worked as a charity,
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providing shelter and food for poor students,
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who are the children of their congregation at the church.
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But when the news spread of a school which provides food,
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more parents who were not able
to send their students to other schools,
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started to send them at Gihada Academy
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and a few months later,
the school’s capacity was full.
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Now, what we didn't anticipate is that these children
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the next day would come with their siblings
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Now, if today we serve one boy
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Tomorrow he will come with two sisters and so on And so forth
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Right now we have a population of about 300 and 350 children.
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And we started running it as a school.
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They come, they learn they go home
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The feeding program did not stop
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We continued
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The increase in the number of students
was a big challenge to the school
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but the elephant in the room
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was the deteriorating state of Kenya's economy
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The inflation in Kenya has almost hit double digits
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and this has affected the prices of food,
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which has doubled in some instances.
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To respond to that, the school had introduced a small portion of school fees
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to accommodate the rising cost of food,
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but some parents don’t pay the money
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yet they send their children to school anyway,
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resulting in the scarcity of food as all students share
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the few food paid by the minority of parents.
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The results are these frightening scenes
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where students have to fight ferociously in order to land
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their hands on a small portion of food from the dish.
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[ fighting for food ]
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So right now at 2:10
we can only managed to feed a few kids.
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Sometimes you get some food,
whatever we budgeted for
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Considering the limitations of the funds we charge here,
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we serve a little bit of food
for at least the majority.
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Then the rest sometimes they're even
forced to fight for the food.
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Some parents have tried to play their role in order to keep this school running,
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but their poverty has restricted how much they can do to help the school.
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This Lucky, she was sent home to bring school fees
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and his father is willing to pay.
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However, he doesn’t have all the money he is required to pay,
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but chooses to pay a small portion of it
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in order to allow her daughter to attend school,
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as he tries to find the remaining fees.
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However, Lucky didn’t meet her luck today.
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She enters the Director’s Office to present her school fees
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but she is not allowed to proceed to the class,
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as her pay is lower than what is required.
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Instead, she is given a paper to present to her father
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and asked to get out of the Office
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despite the fact that the school
is 20 kilometres from her home.
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We met her outside and she didn’t hold back her disappointments.
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Angry that she cannot study
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despite the best of his effort by her poor father,
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It's not good.
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And after all of that,
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they do not have food to eat in school.
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Some of our parents cannot even afford
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food or water
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If we come with a little bottle of water
here, it's over
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Before lunch,
All you have to do is just sleep.
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You can't even go to play and enjoy yourself
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just like other children because you are hungry
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That is what I will ask for, just for now.
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Thank you.
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So you mean you have walked 20 kilometers
to your school? Yes.
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And that's what you do every day. Yes.
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Lucky clarifies that the state of other students,
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including their uniform and shoes,
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reflect the poverty of their families and their school’s
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and fragility of their country’s economy.
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Some of us just wear any kind of uniforms
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purple, pink, green, yellow, any kind
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because we cannot afford the fee of the uniforms
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it’s not fair
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some of us just come with hair
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it looks like you’ve never ever seen the barber shop
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It’s not fair,
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it seems like our school is turning into a prison
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Among students whose parents cannot pay school fees
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include this young boy here,
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Joseph who is just 14 years old.
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My name is Joseph
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We met him when he was trying to find something to eat
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after he was expelled from the school.
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I am looking for food,
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I have been expelled from the school
and I don’t have anything to eat.
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Even if I can go back to school,
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I can struggle to focus on the courses
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because of hunger.
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Lack of space and scarcity of food are not the only problem
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Mercy has to think about when she sits down in her office.
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Her school, also faces an acute shortage
of professional teachers
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and that affects the quality of education provided at this school.
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the problem is financial
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the teachers have decided not to report to school because of lack of payments
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so because of money, we use it for the feeding program
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buying water
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so it has been a challenge,
so they have not reported today
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and yesterday, then
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we’ve trained our children now
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one of them is trying to teach the kids,
the other kids in class
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you can come in and see
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There are only 10 teachers who are not well paid
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and some of them don’t show up at school
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as they go to make money from other areas.
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If that happens, students themself
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must find a teacher among them to teach them.
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Today, this 5 year old is teaching her colleagues
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and she is proud of her work.
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105,
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106,
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My name is Anaske Emutu and I am five years old.
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Our teacher refused to come and I decided to teach my fellow students.
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155,
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156,
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Mercy admits that her school
cannot find a way of hiring more teachers,
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additional to the very few they have.
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Also, they don’t have the means to keep up
with the school feeding program
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especially that parents are not eagerly
participating with the initiative.
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As a result, Mercy thinks that they are about to close the school
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if nothing is done pretty quickly to save their dwindling accounts.
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You can help this school to maintain their activities through givinglife.com
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with links found in descriptions and pinned in the top comments.
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The health of a country is measured through
the quality of its education,
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and it is everyone’s responsibility
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to make sure that young children are equipped
with quality of education
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that will help them to spur their talents in the future.
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