Luta pelo Direito à Educação

Preciso MUITO da sua ajuda.

Você pode doar qualquer valor a partir de R$ 5,00 reais, divulgar para os seus amigos e família, mandar no grupo de WhatsApp, compartilhar nas redes sociais.

Doando qualquer valor a partir de R$5,00, você contribuirá com meus estudos. Se você doar um dos valores sugeridos, como forma de agradecimento, te enviaremos um dos produtos vendidos pela minha mãe,  Mariama Bah, da marca Sabaly,  Artigos de moda e Artesanato africanos feito por Imigrantes e Refugiados.

Existem diversas productos como colares, pulseiras, turbantes, roupas, máscaras, sandálias e vários artigos personalizados com as cores da África para o Brasil com muito carinho. Podem ver o trabalho que minha Mãe faz no Instagram @sabalyoficial e @saballydesign o trabalho é muito linda mas poucos conhecem ainda e devido a pandemia as vendas baixaram considerablemente mas continuamos lutando pra nos manter em pé e por isso preciso muito da colaboração de cada um de vocês.

Você me ajuda a realizar este sonho?

Acredito que juntos podemos provar que mulheres africanas podem e devem estudar e também contribuir para mudar a realidade da fome em meu país de origem.

Preciso da sua ajuda para realizar o meu sonho, o sonho da minha mãe e o sonho de muitas meninas da Gâmbia, Afganistão e outros países no mundo

Vamos juntos?

Hi, my name is Maimuna Jawo, I'm 18 years old and I'm from The Gambia, a country in West Africa that borders Senegal. In 2016, I arrived in Rio de Janeiro to meet my mother, who was a child marriage victim at age 13. She was taken out of school to get married, interrupting her dream of continuing her studies. To be able to study and seek better opportunities, she left our country and sought refuge in Brazil. Knowing that I was approaching the age at which I was also in danger of being forced to marry, she struggled to bring me to Brazil to live with her and continue studying.

I had never had contact with the Portuguese language, I spoke English and local Gambian languages. Adapting was difficult, but I got a full scholarship at Our Lady of Mercy (OLM), an American bilingual school in the south of Rio de Janeiro. The school was far from where I lived at the time, in Cabuçu, located in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, in the Baixada Fluminense.

Every day, I would wake up at 4 am to go to school at 7:30. It was not an easy experience, but all the sacrifice was worth it: in my last year of high school, I applied to colleges abroad and not here in Brazil because my Portuguese is not good enough for university level, as I studied all of my life in English. I chose Biotechnology as my course. I am from a family of farmers. Although there is fertile land in The Gambia, many foods are imported, such as fruits and vegetables.

I believe this situation contributes to the persistence of hunger and malnutrition in my country. With Biotechnology, I want to learn how to increase food productivity, return to The Gambia and work to change the lives of many people. According to the UN, The Gambia produces only 50% of the food it consumes, leaving the country dependent on imports. Women are recognized as the main producers of staple foods, but gender disparities in education and access to land and credit make it difficult for them to compete on an equal footing in the agricultural sector. With all my effort, I was accepted to 13 universities in the United States and Canada.

At these colleges, I received some scholarships, which were not so high, and after comparing the prices, I chose to go to the University of Alberta, Canada, as the Canadian dollar is cheaper than the US dollar. Unfortunately, even though the Canadian dollar is cheaper, I still can't pay for my college education. So, I count on your support so that I can continue to study and follow my dream! Not just the dream of a woman who wants to finish her studies, but the dream of fighting hunger and malnutrition in my country.

For me to start my classes in January, I need to apply for a student visa and, for that, I need to prove that I have a value of CAD 40,000, which is the sum of the tuition fees plus accommodation and books, which this amount will be shown to the embassy. I really need your help.

You can donate any amount starting at R$ 5.00 reais, share it with your friends and family, send it to the WhatsApp group, share it on social networks.

By donating any amount from R$5.00, you will contribute to my studies. If you donate one of the suggested amounts, we will send you one of the products sold by my mother, Mariama Bah, at Sabaly, an African fashion brand, as a way of thanking you. There are necklaces, bracelets, turbans, clothes, masks, sandals, and various personalized items in the colors of Africa straight from The Gambia to Brazil with lots of love.

Will you help me make this dream come true? I believe that together we can prove that African women can and should study and also contribute to changing the reality of hunger in my country of origin.

I need your help to make my dream come true, my mother's dream, and the dream of many Gambian girls.

Let's go together?