Support and Protect the Children
The Young Shall Grow International
Recruiting Volunteers
Volunteers are not strangers, they are friends you have yet to meet.
Sena, with one of the children from the village.
Sena is a young girl aged eight who lives in the village of Jamaica in the Keta district of Ghana. The village consists of six families. Her day starts at six in the morning when she fetches water from the well for herself, her brother Kofi who is ten years old and her mother for washing. Her father left two years ago to try and find work and has not been seen since. After breakfast her mother will leave the family home and go collecting firewood from the bush to sell to any passing customers whilst Kofi will go down to the farms and try to get some work. If there is none, he will return home or help his mother in her quest to earn enough so they can eat in the evening. Sena is left to look after herself and any of the village children left by their parents. She is also expected to tidy the house and do any other household chores. As money is short, neither Sena or Kofi can go to school because everything has to be paid for. During my stay in Jamaica I got to know Sena and helped her with her English. In the first week she had learnt the alphabet and a few words and what they meant. With the help of the director of TYSGI, I learnt that she would like to go to school and one day be a teacher herself. For £65 a year her wish could come true. Unfortunately we are sponsoring 50 children at the moment and there is nothing left to help Sena and many others like her.