Salma Betty Ruth
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Salma Betty Ruth has been waiting 213 days for a sponsor.
Salma is a 17 year old promising young girl: she stays with are mother, aunt, grandfather and two younger kid brothers in a two three rooms concrete apartment with zinc roofing at the peninsular axis of Freetown Sierra Leone. Salma's father abandoned them when she was very little and the father has not been providing their needs since. Her family struggles with getting adequate food and basic supplies and sometimes have to sleeps on empty stomack. She lives in a remote community challenged with clean water, efficient electricity supply and good road network. Most of the residents in her community are stone miners and local gardeners. Salma's mother is a civil servant and earn below minimum wage.
Salma loves doing research. She has just completed high school and she is presently waiting to be enrolled in to the university. She loves English language and dreams of becoming a professional Lawyer.
Develop Africa
http://Www.developafrica.org
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.
