By Atsushi Naoe | Programme Coordinator
Thank you for your kind support to the project ‘Zambia: Support For Schooling of HIV/AIDS Orphans’. In the following report, we would like to share the story of Jennifer, one of the most zealous students we are supporting.
Jennifer, 17, is a 9th grade girl who goes to Roma Girls Secondary School located in Ng’ombe Compound in Lusaka. Her mother died of AIDS just after she gave birth to Jennifer. Her father, Richard, works as a chicken buyer at a market, but his income is not enough to send his daughter to school. AAR Japan has long been supporting the schooling of Jennifer since she was a 1st grader in 2005. She behaves well and works hard at school and at home, having served as a school prefect a couple of times and having been on the top list as for the academic performance. When she was a 7th grader, she got a high score of 807 out of 1000, far beyond the average of 500 at the national examination, which made her qualified to enter Roma Girls Secondary School that is known for its quality education among the community. Even after she entered that school, she did not slow her pace. After all classes are finished, she remains in a classroom and study by herself until 4p.m. every day since it is difficult for her to study at home, once returning home from school, she has to prepare supper for her family and look after her young half-brother and half-sister. Jennifer says she wants to be a doctor in the future because she lost her mother to AIDS and witnessed many sick people in her community such as her mother’s elder sister suffering from high blood pressure.
Jennifer is frugal with words but her determination toward her dream is genuinely solid. She strongly hopes to enter good high school, receive quality education and be permitted to a medical school. In Zambia, all 9th graders take a national examination at the end of the year, of which results decide whether one can continuehigher educationor not. Jennifer is trying her best toward the exam in order to make her dream come true.
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