Festus
Festus has been waiting 1495 days for a sponsor.
Festus has four younger half-siblings, one girl and three boys. Festus resides with his father and stepmother at home, in a one-room and parlor flat rented in a big house compartment at Looking Town in the Grafton community, the eastern part of Freetown.
Grafton is a remote area where most of the residents are low-income earners and the community lacks access to clean drinking water and electricity. Most of the residents in the Grafton community are stone miners and petty traders.
He dreams of becoming a medical doctor. His father is unemployed and his stepmother is involved in petty trading making it very challenging for Festus to further his education to the next level.
Develop Africa
Founded: 2006
U.S. Federal EIN: 20-3836551
Develop Africa strategically empowers lives in Africa by providing educational opportunities and strengthening self-reliance so that individuals, families, and communities can create positive change in their own lives.
We empower lives by providing school supplies, scholarships, mosquito nets, solar lights, computer/vocational training, etc. We also provide microfinance loans and disaster relief. This helps them become self-sufficient and rise above poverty.
When individuals and families are strengthened, they can contribute towards community, national and international progress.
Vision / Beliefs
- We believe that children and youths are our future.
- We believe that the foundation that we provide will help shape the future of families, communities, and nations
- We believe that we can help change the future of individuals, families, cities, nations, and the world through the opportunities that we provide.