Hello everyone!
My name is Ansh Johri. I am currently in my senior year at Montgomery Blair High School in Maryland, USA.
After going to Ghana on the two-week Care and Community Program through Projects Abroad (http://www.projects-abroad.org/more-info/volunteer-stories/?content=2-week-specials/care-and-community-in-ghana/ghana/ansh-johri/), I met a young man named John Dzimado, who was a member of our host family in the village of Kwamoso. John looked after the volunteers and helped me settle into a foreign nation, and soon he and I developed a strong friendship. On my last day with John, the young man told me about his career pursuits in Information Technology, lamenting that he may not have enough money to get through college, since his father had passed away a few years earlier.
As soon as I got back home, I explained John's situation to my parents, and thus our fund-raising for his education began...
My family and I sent John money in small portions as he began a computer course preparing him for college. Through his hard work, John recently informed us that he had been accepted into the University of Cape Coast.
Since John has entered the University, the tuition for his education has increased. After collaborating with Projects Abroad, we have created a campaign to send more money to John. We are seeking donations from those willing to help an underprivileged young man pursue his career.
If you are willing to make a contribution to our campaign, please contact me at anshjohri@gmail.com for instructions on how you can get the money to John.
Please feel free to contact me for any questions!
Remember, every penny, every small contribution counts! Please donate!
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A few words from John...
My name is Dzimado John. I am twenty years old and a Ghanaian. I was born in Akosombo in the Eastern Region of Ghana, west-Africa. My mother's name is Madam Janet Akyiwaa and father's name is the late Mr. Kwaku Dzimado. My father was a farmer and from the Volta Region of Ghana whilst my mother is a kenkey seller, a food prepared from maize and from the Eastern Region of the country.
I was brought up in a village called "Tortorshi" in Akosombo where I started my basic education. In the village, it was not easy for me to go to school because of the great distance from my house to the school, which was the only one in the whole area. So I went to stay with my uncle till I completed the Volta River Authority, Junior High School. Just after the J.S.S (Junior Secondary School), my father passed away, so things really changed in terms of caring for my fees. So I came to one of my uncles named Rev. Fianko Bekoe, who after looking at my excellent results, could not let me stay at my old home. He then took me to the high school. I then got a friend named Ansh Johri, who came to volunteer from America whilst I was with my uncle after the high school waiting for results. At that moment, I told my friend that I wanted to go to a computer school to study computers, but he stayed with us for only one week and then left to a different area on his visit. He emailed me just when he got home and told me that he will discuss my tuition fees with his parents and raise some funds. In two weeks time, Ansh sent me all the money I needed for the computer course. So I got the basis of computer in Ike's Computer Technology Limited. Ansh has been of great help to me, because whilst I have been at school, Ansh has been raising funds for me from American organizations, friends, and family. He has been of wonderful help to me and even helped me apply for the university which I have been offered admission to study Bachelor of Education (social studies) programme at the University of Cape Coast.
I am a hard working person who helps the volunteers in their work and also to do some basic house works like washing off their clothes. Also, on the volunteers' leisure times I sit together and play games like ludo (a Ghanaian game), cards, etc just to make them feel okay with the new environment.
My aim is to be a professor in education and in IT (information technology).It is my dream to teach at the high schools in America after the school since American citizens helped to bring me up and I will like to pay them back by teaching their kids and to be a form of saying thank you.
I am a brilliant and hard working student but poor, so in short money will hinder me from achieving all my plans. I really want to replace my father in the family to take care of my mother and my younger ones. I therefore embarked on this fund donation to help me continue my education at the university then do my masters in America. Through this exercise I hope to take care of all my needs in school and get to where some day. This will help me focus on my studies and not thinking about how to pay my fees again so I can study and come out with a class A degree.
I therefore appeal to all people to come to my aid and donate for my education in order for me to achieve my dreams. God richly bless you for your donations.
