Our Trust, Hope Unlimited has just paid the entire year’s school fee for Clemencia Francis. The 14-year-old is now in Class 9 at a private school in Chennai. With the Covid pandemic striking early 2020, her mother lost her job without getting any compensation. Clemencia’s father is a daily wage earner. The family was unable to pay the fee for last year when Clemencia was in Class 8. Hope Unlimited has now cleared the dues and hopefully, Clemencia continues to stay in school. She is, in fact, the fourth girl whose school fee the Trust has paid in the last few months as their families, like many, many others have been badly affected by the fallout of the pandemic.
(November 2021)