Rachel
Age: 18 Years
Date of Birth: 24 Jun, 2008
Class: Senior Four
Enrolled Since: 2021
Background & Story
WESHARE-Rachel's story💚
Rachel once a school drop-out! who started taking alcohol at 13 years
Rachel is a 13 year old adolescent girl, who joined our WESHARE family in 2021. We met Rachel while staying with her single mom and her other 4 siblings in a ram-shackled house in the slums. Rachel had dropped out of school for one year without school, because her mom had no school fees, and she was serving as a waiter in her mom's local bar to afford money for their house rent. Rachel tells her story that she started taking alcohol because of the many thoughts of her troubled family as the drunkards told her they drink to forget their family problems, she also joined a drinking club with some young girls in the slums.
Her mom could badly drink overnight and many-times she could leave them alone in the house. During an over rains late in the night, their house was struck down and the roof went off, with the candle left lighting inside, their house was partly burnt, they were saved by a neighbor who caused an alarm for help, they nearly got burnt in the house. We would now be saying to their souls rest in peace, thanks to God.
Our Heart-felt mission of WESHARE-Uganda Child Foundation together with Newlife Presbyterian Church, Kajjansi, came to the rescue of this family, Rachel was helped to return to school; completed her Primary level of Education and currently in her secondary level 4 of Education, Rachel needs UGX 300,000 Per Term in school for a bright future.
Through the women empowerment Program, we helped her mom to engage in other income generating business and we were able to resettle their family out of the slums.
Rachel is now Healthy and Part of our lovely WESHARE-family; a family that absolutely adores her and has a future that has been re-written and is filled with Hope. Rachel wants to be a Creative Fashion Designer when she pursues her studies. She is passionate at serving in Church and today serves as our welfare-leader in the youth ministry; she is a delightful, jolly, creative and kind young girl. Rachel says that her desire is to be the WESHARE-Ambassador; to help many young girls out there who have drowned their lives in alcohol, prostitution among many other unhealthy behaviors, to give them a Hope again for a new life and the good girls they can be when they accept Christ Jesus as their Lord and Personal savior. Rachel likes nice foods and she likes unique designs in wears.
We cannot imagine Rachel's life without WESHARE; she is Part of the many blessings we asked of, from our God.
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