Faith
Age: 18 Years
Date of Birth: 10 Oct, 2008
Class: Senior Four
Enrolled Since: 2021
Background & Story
WESHARE-Faith's storyđź’š
Once a school Drop-out, lost her father to Heart Failure!
Meet Faith a 13 year old adolescent girl, joined WESHARE in 2021 during the COVID crisis, rescued from the slum areas of Kajjansi line, living with her single mother who is mentally unsound due to alcohol-induced psychosis. During her early childhood, Faith lost her father due to Heart Failure. She spent much of her child hood days in the slums with her single mother who joined a drinking club with a group of women, most of whom are prostitutes and single mothers. She could badly drink and some-times found helpless and picked up naked by the roadside, many times she would flog her daughter, sometimes she could threaten to be-head her with use of abusive language with reports that her own mom had started coarsing her into sexual work for money. Many days Faith slept on an empty stomach where her mom was away in the bar.
During our Charity mission in the slums, we met Faith who was wasted, totally devastated and undergoing all sorts of torture, deeply crying; she had not tasted a meal 2 days, and her mom had spent her past days with overnights of binge drinking in the local bars. She was in deep sorrow for her mom's wasted life and health, and her life was in danger, she had accumulated all sorts of threats; with death and hunger.
Faith and Rachel both lived in the slums and were both in the same class, and had dropped out of school for one year, Faith's uncle who used to support her with part of her school fees had lost his job and was sickly bed-ridden. Faith says she could be left home to wash her mom's cloths filled with vomitus from alcohol and sometimes blood from fights, as her mom used to fight with other women in the bar. Faith could also work with Rachel as a waiter in the bar, serving alcohols and cleaning up the bar to earn a living.
At her age, Faith had done all sorts of this work and she had saved for herself 15000 Ugandan shillings in her coin box and she wished of a day to come, when she would return to school.
With the lovely family of WESHARE-Uganda Child Foundation and Newlife Presbyterian Church, Kajjansi, Faith's life was to our call to rescue her and make a difference. Together with an engagement with the local authorities, we talked to the mom; Faith was adopted into our lovely family of WESHARE. We shared with Faith and her mom the good news of the word of God and the un-ending love of Christ to us, Faith confessed Christ as her Lord and personal savior, and joined our local Church where she has since then grown a new life of love, faith and Hope. Faith was helped to return to school and she completed her primary level of education, currently in her secondary level 4 of education, Faith needs UGX 300,000 Per Term for her school fees to have a bright future.
With the women empowerment Program in the slums, her mom was helped to develop a positive mindset and engage in other productive businesses. Today she is progressively quitting alcohol.
We helped to re-settle their family from the deadly alcohol Hotspot where Faith's life was prone to prostitution and alcoholism. Faith says many young girls in the slums serve as waiters in the bars, many of them are lured into taking alcohol, prostitution and early marriages in exchange with cheap gifts from Boda-Boda men and other slum dwellers.
Faith is passionate at church and serves in the choir team, she enjoys singing to God. Her life is now healthy, filled with love and re-counts an amazing future with Hope again.
Faith has a Dream of being a Doctor. With her future career dream, Faith hopes she can save many children and women who would have died during child birth or pregnancy-related causes.
Faith also desires to be a WESHARE-Ambassador that she would advocate for children rights, most of whom are suffering and victims of child abuse with domestic violence. She hopes to carry on with the same love of WESHARE to many girls out there in the slums who have a thought that their lives came to an end. Faith says there is still a Hope.
We cannot imagine our WESHARE family without Faith, she such a lovely daughter and a Gift to us and she will be a great inspiration to the world. Faith Loves music as Part of her hobbies!
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