Mercy Uganda's Student of the Week--Solomon #5407-BG-11

I am so happy to report that we received a sponsor for Florence last week.  Thank you Charleen and Dave!!

Please allow me to introduce you to this sweet boy.  Solomon is about 12 years old.  He is part of a large family that is special to Mercy Uganda.  The father is Charles Onyango.  Laura (founder of Mercy Uganda) had the privilege of meeting Charles in 2008.  He is such a precious young man of God who has had a life of loss and hardship.  When he was a young teen, his parents were murdered by the Lord’s Resistance Army while living in Gulu.  This left Charles to care for his younger siblings.  A year later, one of his siblings died leaving Charles to care for their three children in addition to his own six.  That’s 9 children all together.  Charles struggles to meet their needs, always loving each child and never showing partiality.  Charles works hard to keep the children in school.  He with little education himself does whatever work he can to provide for the family.  He is unable to pay all the school fees but does all he can to barter goods in exchange for their education. 

The children are sick often with recurring bouts of malaria, malnourishment and dehydration.  If the children were in school they would have food each day.  They would have a mosquito net to cover their bed and help protect them from malaria.

It costs $500.00 per year to sponsor Solomon.  This includes all of the school requirements, 3 terms of school, boarding, food, and transportation.  The school fees can be divided up into the 3 terms, January, May, and September, with the January term being higher to purchase requirements for the year.  Term one: $200.00, terms two and three $150.00 each.  Each student is required to bring a list of items for their first day of school.  These items typically include a mattress, mosquito net, trunk to store items, school supplies, school uniform, socks, shoes, bars of soap, a carton of laundry detergent, among many other items.


With Your Sponsorship:

1. We send you pictures and updates as often as possible. The updates are done by our team in Uganda when they travel to the areas and the schools, and by our team members who travel to Uganda during the year.  You may receive 1 to 3 updates a year depending on our ability to travel to some of the more remote areas.
2. We will let you know if the child has siblings in need of sponsorship in case you want to help a family, or know a friend who may want to partner with you.
3. We will be more than happy to deliver letters and small care packages to your child when we travel to Uganda. We try to let our sponsors know ahead of time so they can send us letters for us to take with us. You can also send small monetary gifts that we will deliver to your child which provides special items, and extra food.  It also allows us to purchase things for them there in Uganda so your gift is maximized.

If you have more questions or would like more information about our child sponsorship program, please contact us. We would love to share with you.  Remember, your sponsorship is tax-deductible!
  

If you would like to sponsor Solomon please contact Becky at ezekiel37medical@gmail.com.

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