I'd like you to meet on of the children who we have selected to receive a scholarship. This young student needs your help to stay in school. I wanted you to see education through the eyes of an orphan. Take a moment to read this short testimony, and consider how you can support a student in Swaziland with a gift of $25 to the Scared Education Fund.

ALL MY DREAMS WERE SHATTERED…A Swazi Orphan Memoir

At first everything was okay when my mother and my father were able to look after my life.

I am the firstborn in my family.  All things changed when I was about to finish first year in high school, this is when my parents died and I felt like I no longer deserved to live.  I thought that all my dreams were shattered.

I had to stay home for some years in shortage of school fees.  Just because I was no more attending school I joined a crew of boys who were not learned and some were always creating disorder around them.  They were stealing and doing a lot of bad things, which they took it as some kind of sport.  I then also became addicted to it.

I was behaving like an animal, and I would not take any advice.  I thought that where I was life ends.  I don’t know what happened to my life but I remember the day when I left my friends and they thought I was joking.  I never went back.  I change my life ad I tried to create order in my life and do good things.  I prayed to God for protection to God, who later provided me with everything I needed.

I am now back in school doing form three.  When I am old I will not like my life experiences.  When I was young I wanted to have everything I needed and I loved God with all my heart and I will stick with him because he is the master planner.  I know and I trust him because he brought me up this far and I know he will never leave me.  I want to help children who are like me, I will be their source of life.