We recently visited the homes of a few of our students. Sometimes you just have a gut feeling that things might not be going well — and in the case of the family where three of our students come from, that feeling turned out to be right. Gertrude (graduating on October 9th), Lennox (in his second year of barber training), and Kenndey (who studied plumbing) hadn’t had a proper meal in a long time.
So off we went in the tuk-tuk with Gertrude to do some serious grocery shopping. A lot of groceries.
Now you might say, “But isn’t that beyond the scope of the Learn! Foundation?”
True — and that’s exactly why we sometimes step in personally, outside of the Foundation’s budget.
The same goes for the father of one of our students, who was in severe pain due to a nasty wound — a lasting result of a road accident. We didn’t trust the look of it and arranged for him to go to a good clinic. Our instincts were right again: an X-ray at the private clinic showed things were not okay. We also brought food supplies, because the man couldn’t even afford to buy Paracetamol.
