A wonderful story of discipleship at Okalawo School, Mozambique | By Leonie Nortje We, in partnership with Life Child, are so excited to share this lifechanging story about our student - Mansur. He is 11 years old and he lives with his grandparents and 5 brothers.. Currently, Mansur is in Grade 3. Like many in Africa, Mansur doesn’t have a father Like many other children, he lost his father at an early age and his mother moved away from the neighbourhood, leaving Mansur and his brothers with their grandfather to take care of them. As a consequence, Mansur developed serious issues of low self-esteem, personality problems, aggressiveness and had difficulties socializing with his classmates, and he developed a bad relationship with his teacher. Unfortunately, his vulnerability and behavioural instability had contributed to his failure at school, and he needed to repeat a year. Through pastoral visits, the teacher was able to discover the reality his home situation. It became possible for her to understand and help Mansur. Through the effectiveness of discipleship and school followups that Life Child encouraged, the situation has radically changed.
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Today Mansur is a happy, motivated child, who is overcoming the many difficult challenges he faced. He sees the future with hope and gratitude, and has become a very dedicated, intelligent and cooperative student. Like other children, Mansur has a dream - he wants to be a policeman to help his grandfather, his brothers and his community. Join us in prayer and gratitude as we reach more children like Mansur and help their dreams become a future reality!
