Many Hopes

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Meet Gome. Growing up in Malawi, Gome’s family recognized his potential and sacrificed two meals a day to be able to send him to school. He excelled and graduated high school, which is exceedingly rare in Malawi. Then he was accepted to college. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the funds to complete his education. Gome returned to the fields with his family until one day hearing about the Many Hopes x Pothawira Malawi program. He walked for days to get more information on the program’s funding for local educational opportunities, and his persistence paid off: the program funded his tuition to nursing school, where he once again excelled. Gome is now working professionally at the clinic in Malawi, determined to give back to the community that changed his life and he’s as persistent as ever. In addition to paying for his siblings’ school fees, Gome is currently saving money to continue his education as an optometrist. It will take $6,000 USD for him to become an eye doctor. If he’s successful, Gome will become an even greater asset to his community: for a country of 17 million people, there are currently only 12 ophthalmologists in Malawi. Gome, we’re grateful for your example and your persistence.

Meet Angellah, our day to day operator on the ground in Malawi. Multitasking is in the job description for Angellah, who simultaneously oversees a home for 124 children, a primary school for 400 children, and a medical clinic that serves 30,000 patients a year. She treats the children who live on site as her own, and the primary school is so famous for its excellent education that families send their children from miles around to attend. The medical clinic is similarly renowned and visited. Angellah helps make it all possible and we’re grateful for her work, which, like all those in her care, makes Malawi stronger and better ever day.

Meet Charles: 8th grader and photosynthesis expert with dreams of becoming a doctor. Charles is at the top of his class in Salima, Malawi. Only 36% of students in Malawi finish 8th grade, but we’re rooting for you, Charles!

Survivors get tired last

When children first arrive at the recovery center in Ghana, they get a shower and a set of clean new clothes. Then, the staff weighs them and they undergo an initial health check for injuries and sicknesses like malaria. Most children have never seen a doctor before or received any type of vaccinations. As children settle into their new home, they are brought up-to-date with vaccines and regain strength as they heal and put on weight.

When it comes to education, children all over the world are facing a crisis of access- they can’t get the supplies or resources they need to learn. Many Hopes has partners in Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Peru that prioritize education and help children access what they need to learn so they can grow up and become leaders in their communities. 

Mohamed buzzes around his fourth grade classroom like a ball shot from a cannon, and he’ll tell anyone who will listen exactly what he wants to be when he grows up: the branch manager of the International Bank of Malawi. Mohamed didn’t always have big ideas; growing up, he didn’t even have access to running water or electricity, and he didn’t know that a life outside of poverty was possible.  When he joined our program, he started school and everything changed. He excelled in school. Mohammed has discovered his own potential and skills and is on his way to high school. Access to education exposed him to professions he never knew existed. He started to see how he could be part of the solution to the brokenness he grew up in. He began to focus on what life might look like as a businessman. In addition to his (very precise!) goal of becoming a branch manager, Mohamed is inspired to help teach people in his community about money and ways in which they can start their own businesses. He’s learned that if he can help people bring revenue and employment to his community, his neighbors will be strengthened in the long term. All Mohamed needed was a place to learn, and grown-ups to model himself after. What a good use of a whole lot of energy. Thank you for making it so. 

When it comes to education, children all over the world are facing a crisis of access- they can’t get the supplies or resources they need to learn. Many Hopes has partners in Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Peru that prioritize education and help children access what they need to learn so they can grow up and become leaders in their communities. 

Meet Basilio, our school counselor in Guatemala! Basilio’s expertise is long-term: starting in elementary school, he helps children plan strategically for high school, university and their professional careers afterwards. Empowering children at the elementary level with an actionable plan for financial independence is critical, he says - he wants them to know that with hard work, anything is possible. We are lucky to have such great people on the ground.