KEEP FREDI IN SCHOOL YR 3 FEES

My name is Gill and I worked and lived as a volunteer in Tanzania, East Africa for three and a half years from Sept 2013 to March 2017. I have many tales to tell and tears to shed but today I want to introduce you to one family whose lives we can and have changed for the better and why we MUST continue to do, to continue to keep them safe and independent.

"One day Baba (Daddy) threatened to kill Mama and said he doesn't care if she leaves him. This pains Mama so much but she cannot leave while Fredi still needs her support after school every day."

It started as I was invited with my co-volunteer friend Laura to attend Fredi´s confirmation. We sat as guests of honour and watched a drama unfold. A drama where Fredi´s Mama worked and slaved to give her son a day to be proud of. 

LAURA, FREDI AND I

A day that ended in the middle of the night when Fredi´s father stormed into the room where the women and children slept with a machete in his hand and alcohol in his belly and threw them all out to sleep in the gutter of the dusty road.

And so I asked Fredi´s older sister to share the tale of her Mama with me (see some of her words above and below).

AN EXTRACT FROM ONE OF SARAH´S LETTERS TO ME DESCRIBING HER FATHER´S BEHAVIOUR

Mama Fredi has now successfully moved away from her abusive husband thanks to OUR ability to place Fredi into a safe schooling environment. She lives a happier life in a single room from where she goes to her work as a street vendor of foods rejoicing in that her earnings now remain her own and her husband cannot demand them from her to fritter on beer and alcohol.

MAMA AND FREDI

If you are first time reading this tale of Fredi, Sarah and their Mama (Mama Fredi / Mama Sarah BABA is Father) their full story and other information can be found here: 
http://bit.ly/2RtgPlW 

Through the love and generosity of those around me, Fredi has now completed his first two years of secondary school education. This he has done within the safe haven of a private boarding school where he can complete his studies and do his homework in peace and away from the trauma of watching his beloved Mama being bullied and abused by an alcoholic father. Now I must seek further support for I have started on a path that MUST be followed, at least, to the end conclusion of his sitting his O-Levels at the end of Year Four.

FREDI BEING ACCEPTED INTO NORTHERN HIGHLANDS SCHOOL BY HIS YEAR ONE FORM MASTER

I have nothing to give you, except my faith and belief in the path that I have asked you all to follow with me. I am no longer in Moshi and the photos and updates are not easy to generate remotely. I cannot publish the current happy shots of this young boy whose life WE are changing and this makes me sad and apprehensive of asking for your further support.

All I can do is assure you of the genuine need for OUR continued intervention in this remarkable family´s fate, all I can do is ask for your continued faith and trust in me and once again ask you to dig deep into your pockets and your hearts and let US ensure Fredi can move forward to year three of his O level education.

Remember the words of Sister Sarah that started all of this:

"One day Baba (Daddy) threatened to kill Mama and said he doesn't care if she leaves him."

€750 (2,000,000 TZS) will secure a third year´s education at Northern Highland Boarding School Moshi Tanzania. Fees are due by the start of 2019 January term. The cost of a box of crackers, Christmas cards, a bottle of Christmas cheer,  whatever you can afford really will make the world of difference. 


My thanks and love to everyone reading this far, like, share, donate and help - please. xxxx