{"id":2252,"date":"2021-04-14T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T10:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:00:36","slug":"2252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/?p=2252","title":{"rendered":"Alice`s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 \u00a0Alice (not her real name) is a 16-year-old young girl a class seven pupil, in primary school, who is one of the identified
\nbeneficiaries of The NGAO foundation.
\nShe lost her mother due to family disputes when she was very young, the father also abandoned her. The aunt
\ndecided to adopt her despite herself struggling to make a living. The marital struggle forced the aunt to flee to
\nNairobi. While in rural areas Alice was not taken to school. Her close relatives started abusing her sexually. The
\nconstant verbal insults toward her coupled with sexual molestation made the aunt go back for her in the rural
\nareas.
\nAlice lives with her aunt in a single room corrugated iron sheet house in Kangemi due to unemployment life is
\nunbearable at times. With her age, she should be in secondary but due to all these circumstances, she delayed
\nstarting school which killed both her morale as a girl and her self-esteem tremendously.
\nDue to all these issues, the NGAO foundation came to the rescue. Alice was on the edge and at risk of falling into sexual
\nharassment or even early marriage if not taken to school. Was accompanying the aunt any available house chores
\nthey will get. The casual job that could put food on the table. The aunt has a child of her own therefore she vends
\nfor both to eat and have a living.
\nOne of the foundation\u2019s main programs is mentorship. When alice joined NGAO she was struggling with low
\nself-esteem. The foundation decided to enroll her through a mentorship process where she underwent several
\nmentorship sessions, self-esteem being one of those sessions.
\nEventually, she successfully overcame the low self-esteem issue. She opened up more about the challenges that the
\nfamily was going through while in Kangemi, these challenges included; lack of school fees, poverty, and insufficient
\nmeals, low self-esteem. Ngao foundation facilitated the payment of her school fees, the mother was provided with
\nsmall capital for the business of selling porridge and skills in soap making.
\nAlice has been able to discover her talents, also she interacts with everyone confidently without feeling shy or
\nuncomfortable. She wants to become a doctor and also give back to the community. She does not have to worry
\nabout food and tuition fees because The Ngao foundation has come to help out.
\nYou can support Alice to continue with her studies and also enable other girls to overcome obstacles by
\noffering your donation to The Ngao Foundation to secure her future for only $340<\/a>.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0Alice (not her real name) is a 16-year-old young girl a class seven pupil, in primary school, who is one of the identified beneficiaries of The NGAO foundation. She lost her mother due to family disputes when she was very young, the father also abandoned her. The aunt decided to adopt her despite herself struggling to make a living. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ngao-foundation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thengaofoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}