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Ghana- Anabel is Going to School! [1]

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Date: 2023-09-21

I was going to save this until Monday but I thought some people might be worrying so I decided to write a brief little story to let everyone know the good news.

Anabel is a four year old orphan girl in Ghana. She was abandoned at age three by her mother, who has since passed away. My friend John took her in and arranged for her care at an organization that helps children in difficult situation. She has been there for about ten months now.

The organization insisted that she attend school as part of their requirements for letting her stay. And of course she is old enough that she should be in school anyway. The people in charge there were not really being unreasonable.

So this was a serious problem. We simply did not have the resources to pay the tuition. I don’t know if the shelter would actually have thrown her out because of this but it was worrisome. I know there are many orphan children in Ghana and elsewhere who are out on their own on the streets but the idea of this happening to Anabel was appalling.

But I am overjoyed to be able to say that Anabel will be going to school. Thanks to a very very VERY kind benefactor who stepped in to help, her tuition has been paid and is now in the hands of the school.

Anabel will start school on Monday.

Even more importantly, at least for now her situation at the shelter is assured. They will not be asking us to remove her.

John has sent me some photos of Anabel in her school uniform but he won’t let me show them to anyone yet because he thinks it would be saying that she is already in school. He doesn’t want to deceive anyone.

But anyway, the tuition has been paid and she is enrolled. If everything goes right she will attend school for the first time next week.

Go good good news! I thought everyone would like to know.

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