Sponsorship for Samuel
- he is happy (2021/06) because he has found a godmother ! But he is still looking for another godparent!

Samuel is the youngest of 10 children in the family. The parents are Lillian and Francis Saro.

The family lives in a hut on the village square. The two eldest sons Mae and Kibaki have built a simple hut next to it just for sleeping.

The rest of the family sleeps in the hut, partly without a bed, without a mattress.

The Saro family is one of the poorest in the village, because Francis cannot find permanent work. Francis occasionally works on construction sites all around and sometimes earns up to 300 shillings (about 2.50 euros) a day.

The two eldest sons also have no work, no apprenticeship and live exclusively from their own garden.

Samuel is a very bright, open-minded little boy. At the age of 4, he already has a great talent in language development: he speaks German, English, Swahili and the tribal language of the Giriama in an age-appropriate manner.

 He even has the German children's songs "Alle meine Entchen" and "Die Affen rasen durch den Wald" in his repertoire by heart...

FutureSamuel has great linguistic talents and, as far as can be judged, he has the potential to be a good to very good pupil.

Your support:

Samuel will then (2021) be 5 years old. 

Later, with your support of 40 euros per month , he can go to primary school until he is about 16 years old. With your sponsorship, you finance the school fees, school clothing, food and other support for Samuel.

After that, he can attend the Secondary School (comparable to the German Realschule) from around the age of 17. It is a full-boarding school, i.e. full board with living, sleeping, food, school materials, travel costs, clothing. The sponsorship for this would then amount to 120 euros per month.

Education OR study begins after completion of the 5th grade of secondary school and usually lasts 3-5 years. The children are usually 21 years old by then. Your sponsored child needs 600 euros per month for education or studies.

Accompanying the sponsored child until the end of the training would be desirable ! Of course, partial stages are also possible. We will then look for further sponsors for the child to ensure that a graduation is possible.

Your contact options:

Basically, we like it when the sponsored children contact their sponsors - no matter in which form. And the sponsors are always welcome to contact their sponsored children.

The easiest way to do this is via our association (email, WhatsApp, video message etc.) as the residents of the community usually do not have a mobile phone. Where the sponsored child has a mobile phone, WhatsApp or email, contact can of course also be made directly - but only when the child is of age (18 years) because we also have to protect the children from the pathological excesses of our western "civilisation" - child abuse, prostitution, enslavement. Because in the bush these things are not known and the people here are correspondingly ignorant and unprotected.

Hint:

the assessment of the personal characteristics of the potential godchild is purely subjective. We experience the children/people in our daily life with them during our visits of several months.

People change and often you also have to experience disappointments. We try to promote those personalities where we, purely subjectively, see potential for development. No more, but also no less!

You can find more information about the Kenyan school system in the general informationsection.

Sponsorship is very easy: select the child you want to sponsor in the donation form and choose the payment method: