Patricia (above) is in her final year at primary school and HOPES to go to secondary school.  And she has bigger hopes too - when she’s older she says she wants to become Sierra Leone’s first female president so that she can help communities like her own find a way out of poverty.

Her family are supportive of her desire to do well and study and her dad allows her to use a hurricane lamp so that she can do her homework each evening.

The school she attended in Gbap was literally falling down around the students’ heads. The roof leaked, rafters would sometimes drop on the children and termites ate their school books. There was no toilet and the children had to go into the bush where there are snakes and wild animals.

A brighter future?

Thanks to Christian Aid’s work in Sierra Leone, Patricia and the other children now have a chance of a brighter future since it helped the community persuade the government to build a new primary school for their children.

Having looked forward to using her new desk and bench for months, Patricia is finally able to study, in safety.

But will she get to go to secondary school? and realise her dream of making a real difference to her community?

Well that really depends on whether you donate. 

Please give to provide her and her community with the tools they need to help themselves out of poverty.  Thank you.

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So please dig deep and donate now. Thank you.   Gareth