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Lazaro* is a Grade Four student who has been at Shade since his Pre-Unit year in 2022. He has faced more hardship than any child should have to endure. Lazaro’s world began to fall apart when his father left the family, taking all of their belongings, and leaving Lazaro’s mother and brothers to fend for […]
Meet Miriam,* a current student at Shade school. Miriam is one of several students who has had to move in with a foster family near our campus just to be close enough to attend school. Miriam’s biological family lives about 16 miles from Shade school, and the distance is too far for her to safely […]
When the Shade team first visited Baraka* at his home, he ran inside and hid. Years of isolation had left him afraid, and made it difficult for him to trust unfamiliar people. In his community, he was the only child born with albinism. As is often the case for people with albinism, Baraka’s life was […]
My Tanzanian friends quote a particular verse very often: “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21b). In the past few months, I have heard this verse referenced in times of grieving the death of a loved one, in the face of sudden unemployment, and […]
