Here is an amazing story of a young person making his life better through education... I just received this information from Joe Wagner who is working in West Africa with our United Methodist schools there.
This student is from Albert Academy. Though he is not from Taiama, it does show how determined some students are..
Abdulai Kamara came to Freetown in 2001 with no one to care for him. He ended up staying at Regent Street, sleeping under the gutter. In the morning he moves from house to house collecting garbage (household rubbish)proceeds from which he used for his feeding and the other part payment private lesson fees as he was determined to learn.
After his first 2 years of garbage collection, and as his savings reached some level, all by himself, enrolled in a Primary school. He as the NPSE examination in May 2007 and chose Albert Academy Junior Secondary School as his School of choice for the JSS program.
He is hardworking, serious and determined, sat for the examinations in 2010 and made his mark to enter the senior secondary school. Up to this day Abdulai still lives at his usual gutter, collecting garbage to feed himself and support his education. He will be awarded an Operation Classroom Scholarship.
What an amazing young man! May God bless his hard efforts!
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