
YEI: S165-SAN
October 2022
2022
Yei was promoted to the sixth grade! She has been re-enrolled into school for the 2022/2023 school year. Her favorite subject is science and her teacher reports she’s a good student. She still hopes to be a doctor one day and continues to live with her mother. Sponsored by: Dacia Swanson
September 2021
2021
Thanks to the generous donation from Marina Blokhin, Yei has been re-enrolled in school for the 2021/2022 school year. She was promoted to the 5th grade this year and still wants to be a doctor when she grows up. With less than 500 doctors serving a population of 4.5 million people, Liberian households often experience fatalities due to treatable illnesses. Children aspiring to become doctors is a worthy cause. She continues to live with her mother.
September 2020
2020
Thanks to the generous donation from Marina Blokhin, Yei has been re-enrolled into school for the 2020/2021 school year. She is in the 4th grade this year and still wants to be a doctor when she grows up. She continues to live with her mother. (Please Note: Yei was out of town on the day of the 2020/2021 school distribution. Her materials were left with the school authorities).
October 2019
2019
Thanks to the generous donation from Whitney & Nancy Van Vonderen, Yei has been re-enrolled into school for the 2019/2020 school year. We are sad to report that Yei’s father passed away 3 months ago from an infection. In some parts of Liberia, women, especially first daughters and wives, are known to shave off their heads when grieving their father, mother, husbands, and grandparent’s death, as a sign of respect to the dead and as a new beginning.
June 2019
We are pleased to announce that Yei was promoted to the 3rd grade for the 2018/2019 school year. Sherry Melde, thank you for your sponsorship and for giving your student a gift of education.
September 2018
2018
Yei has been generously sponsored by Sherry Melde. She is 10 years old and was promoted to the 2nd grade this year. She lives in Sanniquellie, Liberia with her mother. Yei’s mother is an unemployed single mother with 6 children, and she can not afford to send them to school. She still wants to be a doctor when she grows up.
September 2017
2017
Meet Yei, who has been generously sponsored by Mariah Hartley Solchenberger in honor of Amanda Tattoni, Mike Larson, Finn & Rory Solchenberger, Glenn Hartley, Grant Hartley and Barb Rambo-Hartley. Yei is 9 years old and in the 1st grade this year. She lives in Sanniquellie, Liberia with her mother. Yei and her siblings did not go to school last year because their mother is an unemployed single woman with 6 children and she could not afford to send her children to school. Her interests are playing with dolls and she hopes to be a doctor when she grows up.
Photos of Yei Throughout The School Years:







