EVELYN ’ S STORY
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EVELYN ’ S STORY
Meet Evelyn ! Evelyn is 18-years old and just started Grade 11 thanks to her third year of sponsorship through The Sonder Project ’ s ‘ Education Is Power ’ program .
Evelyn meets with Country Director , Beria , during a monthly mentorship meeting .
A shy and observant teenager , Evelyn is quietly articulate with a warm smile . Evelyn ’ s favorite subject is Chemistry and she has ambitions to work in medicine , but due to financial hardships and personal challenges in her life , she was not able to
attend school consistently , diminishing her hopes and dreams of one day becoming a doctor .
As a teenage single mother , Evelyn already had many responsibilities . However , she also faced immense challenges in accessing clean water for herself and her family . Every day , she and her mother spent hours walking to a distant water hole to collect unclean water , which further strained her ability to focus on school and care for her infant daughter , Brandina .
Evelyn became a mother at a young age when she gave birth to her daughter , Brandina .
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