Watch: Help a needy disabled child attend school
The mother is unemployed and her live-in boyfriend, Logan's father, is an odd-job man.
A Boksburg underprivileged mother of an 11-year-old boy, suffering from cerebral palsy, is appealing to individuals and local businesses for sponsorship to cover her child’s school transportation cost.
According to the mother, Desiree van Aardt, the lack of money to pay for transport to travel to and from school forced the child, Logan Rossouw, to drop out of Felicitas School.
This is a school for intellectually and physically disabled learners in Brakpan. He was in Grade Three.
“It feels so bad to see my child not in school because I can’t afford to pay for transport. It’s like robbing him of his future.
“How is he going to work for himself without any education when I’m no longer around to take care of him,” said the mother.
Logan receives a monthly disability grant, but that is not enough to keep the family of six above the breadline.
Desiree said it is not even enough money to buy food, pay electricity and pay their rent as well as other necessities.
“We are making an urgent request for a good Samaritan to help one child to have a chance in the world.”
A neighbour, who asked not to be identified, said he is concerned about Logan and other children in the community who don’t go to school.
The neighbour said this is depriving the little ones of their right to basic education and is likely to destroy their future.
To offer the boy a helping hand, sponsors can contact her mother, Desiree, on 064 675 7347 or call the boy’s grandmother, Elna As on 078 673 3930.
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