Support child education in Africa

To all our friends in Global Giving and supporters: through your support, you have made the dreams of two girls begin to happen. Aziza and Sakina are due to complete high school and will be bidding farewell to Malezi School very soon! Although they will be sorely missed, it is a major feat that both girls have successfully completed their high school education and will only be left with SAT exams due in January 2010. Special recognition goes out to their main sponsor, Kassie McIlvaine, whose commitment and support to children in need from the slums of Bujumbura have been legendry, and to her friends and family. We also recognize Liz Odera, who took in the girls and treated them like her own daughters, caring and counseling and training them into the top players in the region that they are now. And to Francis Isiaho, who spent the last 5 months giving back to the community through tutoring a three top juniors that included Aziza in preparation for their finals. Next stop? Says Aziza “I want to be the first person in my family to complete high school and take a college degree”. Sakina? “I just want to play lots of tennis, if I get the chance to go on the professional women’s circuit, I am sure that I can be another Serena Williams”.
All is possible!

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