Sarah Chowezi

Age/Gender: By birth. 2014, girl

Parent: Amazon Bauma – guardian                                                           

Sarah is an orphan being cared for by Amazone, who has two children of her own and, in addition to Sarah, one other orphan—so she is caring for a total of four children. The Alight organization entrusted Sarah to her care, but later left her without any support. As a result, the family is struggling to provide for the children’s basic needs and to pay their school fees.
Of the two orphans, Sarah is the one entrusted to her by the Alight organization, and the foster mother also adopted Mwadjuma, whose mother died in childbirth.
Faced with difficulties in providing for her family, Sarah, an Amazon foster mother, decided to visit the YIDA office to request support for her children’s education. Previously, all four children were enrolled in YIDA schools, but when their lives became difficult, they decided to transfer one orphan to a public school and keep the others at the YIDA school. This situation traumatized them, especially since public schools do not provide the same quality of education. For this reason, they continue to visit the YIDA office whenever they need support for their children.

Sarah lives with her foster mother and her husband in a thatched-roof house in the Kyaka II refugee settlement, along with the other children.

The foster mother's husband does odd jobs in the local community in exchange for food, which is their main source of income. They used to rely on monthly food rations, but later the WFP stopped supporting the family, which made their lives much harder and led to one of the orphans having to change schools.

This assistance is intended to ensure the child's education and cover his or her basic needs.  

Sponsorship support needed: 20.-€/month,