Please Help me to Help Jonah

Hi My name is Michael,

Most people who see this will be friends & family who have already seen my Instagram post about this, because I had such good feedback and everyone seemed to feel what I was feeling, i'm aiming to see if I can help my friend and colleague.

Let me explain for those who don't who may be able to help.

Before I start, I just want to make it known this is not a sob story, more of an ask of well-owed favours from many friends and family to help me help someone who has touched my heart dearly.

I met Jonah through work, after recently moving to Dubai to try and better my professional and personal development.

Jonah, like myself, moved here recently but from Uganda, as some may be aware Uganda is a very poor country is quite a state of disarray at current. Governed by the same power for over 40 years there has recently been many attempted overthrows of power, with riots, protests and similar not ending well for citizens.

Jonah is 22 years old, comes from a family of 4 siblings and him and his whole family, including mother and father, lived in one small house surviving off next to no money or food.

The average monthly wage for an excellent job local to his village was roughly £60. Just let that sink in.

Jonah has come to Dubai alone with minimal work experience, so it is tough for him to secure a well-paid job and accommodation; that being said he has come to Dubai to try and earn jobexperience, earn a job in order for him to send money to his family.

Currently, he is set to earn AED1500 per month maximum for six days a week 12-hour shifts.

This equates to roughly £312 :0.

Out of this money, he has accommodation, food and water to buy and a small amount of phone credit.

As you can see, although he has good intentions, I feel it is going to be a very long time before he can send any money home and make a difference.

My aim here is to try and help Jonah get a leg up.

I've been buying him food, drinks, snacks and clothes to help lift his spirits and keep him motivated.

Money raised will be handed to Jonah in cash for him to decide where it is spent.

He is in need himself but his family require medicines, food water, androughly £280 every 90 days to pay for his younger sisters education.

I hope you can all understand how much this means to me and to be able to hand him £500 / AED2500 to help him and his family it would be greatly appreciated.

50 people at least have reached out to me, 50 people donate £10 ill hit my goal in no time.

I will video me handing Jonah the funds and share to social media, so everyone gets to see how grateful he will be.

I hope evryone can helo me to help Jonah,

Thanks for reading.

Michael