Onike
Onike has been waiting 90 days for a sponsor.
Onike lives with her parents and four brothers in a single-room home with no electricity at the Hilltop Tree planting community located in Freetown. This community is populated and prone to erosion and other environmental disaster during the rains. Access to clean water supply is a challenge for the community, they get their water from the streams nearby and wells in the neighborhood.
Onike has special needs and requires a tutor to help in school. She is steadily improving and has forged positive relationships with her classmates and is adored by everyone in the school. Her writing skills have shown significant improvement compared to the previous academic year, and she can now write fluently and spell her name correctly. There are a few areas where Onike requires additional support. Despite her remarkable progress, she struggles to copy from the blackboard accurately and she tends to participate more actively during one-on-one sessions with her teacher, rather than in a classroom setting.
She enjoys hairdressing and hopes to be a hairdresser when she grows up.
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.