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My name is Dr. Iolanda Johnson, founder of Meet the Universe which I founded in an effort to demonstrate the love of God through humanitarian and philanthropic efforts.
To that end, I visited The Gambia in West Africa in March 2018 and had the opportunity to visit a couple of schools in great need of sponsorship for the purpose of providing a quality education to their students.
One of those schools was Mala Nursery School in the Sika Village of The Gambia which I have adopted in order to garner funding for a school building with suitable facilities for the students and staff.
Land has been purchased for the school and a few building blocks are sitting on the land, but the building project has been stalled for two years due to lack of funding to proceed further.
You may be one of the people who help us achieve something really amazing! Our vision is to provide a classroom for 84 students. Our goal is to make education available to those who wouldn't otherwise have had the opportunity. Imagine: when you educate one person, not only do you equip them and their family for life, but you also help them to support their parents, get a job, get married, and educate their own children, who in turn would educate their children and so on and so forth. Education has a domino effect. The reward just keeps multiplying with each generation. If we educate 1 million people today, they will educate 10million people tomorrow, Furthermore, when you donate to this great cause you also get the reward of supporting all the amazing work that Mala Nursery School does.
Mala nursery school is located in the North Bank Region of The Gambia in a small, remote village called Sika. The population of the entire village is 2450. Mala Nursery School is the first created in the history of Sika for over 50 years. Mala was initiated by a young, courageous Gambian by the name of Omar Darboe. Mr. Darboe became unhappy when he visited the village of Sika in early 2012 and saw the number of kids that were home and not receiving formal instruction. He made up his mind to establish a nursery school to support the village.
However, the biggest challenge lie ahead in how to establish a school and hire teachers with no funding. In addition, Mr. Darboe is from a poor family background and is unable to fund the needs of the school himself. In light of these challenges, Mala Nursery school convenes under a large mango tree and teachers have been enlisted to instruct the children on a voluntary basis. All involved have been sacrificing their time and efforts for the past 5 years.
In addition, the children and staff of Mala are subjected daily to the harmful hazards of wind-blown dust and germs. There is also, no protection from heat, cold or rain as the seasons progress.
We are currently seeking $5000 for land clearing in order to proceed with laying the foundation for the school. I have contributed $100 of my own funds to get this campaign going. Will you join me in helping this school with such a worthy endeavor.
Your gift to Mala Nursery School will help change someone's life forever!
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