Sandra Monday, 12 years
Some years ago while evangelizing, the pastor of Hillside Community Church came across a widow with 4 kids living in unimaginable accommodations and surviving on selling wet sand carried out of trenches by the children. Sandra was 8 years old then. Affording a good school was out of the question. FHSF took over the school needs of the girl, Sandra. As it turned out she was always in the top 3 positions in the class. Towards the end of her primary school education, Sandra applied for a scholarship to secondary school along with other bright students in Abuja and got selected on the condition that her family proved to be needy enough! GEANCO Medical Foundation, which operates the Scholarship in partnership with Lightway Academy (Wuse 2, Abuja), visited Sandra’s home situation and found her to fit the scholarship requirements perfectly. She was admitted into JSS 1(September 2023) with all school needs covered including transportation from home to school daily!
OUR JOY
FHSF’s desire to school orphans, children of indigent families, and internally displaced people whose talents lay buried because they cannot afford to go to nursery/primary schools, has been fulfilled. Sandra would never have discovered her talent if left in the slums carrying sand and running errands!
Our prayer is that she attains the peak of her God-given destiny and that we continue to identify more like her in the society.
