Where Dreams Take Root: Amina & Your Impact at Word Academy

Wednesday, May 21

10:00 am

Dr Daniel & Mary Beth Gilbert

10-year-old Amina carefully fastens the brass buttons of her uniform—fingers tracing the stitching you helped provide.

10-year-old Amina beams in her Word Academy uniform—proof that your generosity is changing lives.

The fabric, crisp against her skin, represents more than clothing.

It’s tangible proof that someone across the ocean believes in her future.

Before your support made Word Academy possible, Amina never dreamed she would go to school.

“Now I dream of becoming a teacher."

Because of you, Amina joins 467 other children whose laughter now fills classrooms that once seemed impossibly out of reach.

Your Generosity Meets Critical Need

When you partnered with Pastor Paul Ocheing and EmPowered Living, you helped answer a prayer. 

The community’s government schools stood like fortresses—visible but inaccessible behind walls of prohibitive fees.

Through your giving, Word Academy has become exactly what its name promises—a place that offers new worlds for children who would otherwise remain outside education’s gates.

The Journey Your Support Shortens

Your generosity, for students like Amina, is measured by the footsteps saved and opportunities gained.

Before your help, children walked distances that left their legs aching and their time for study diminished.

The school bus you helped provide—a beacon of hope each morning—now carries laughing children safely to their lessons.

Yet Paul notes with a gentle honesty, “One bus isn’t enough for all our growing children.”

The Miracle You’ve Made Possible

Despite challenges that would overwhelm many, your support enables Word Academy to provide nurture and education that transforms lives.

Every desk where a child sits, every textbook opened by eager fingers, every teacher whose passion ignites young minds—all exist because you chose to give.

“The need towers above our resources,” Paul admits, “but we faithfully steward every gift to serve as many as possible.”

Currently, 468 children receive education because of partners like you.

Their uniforms create a sea of possibility, their voices raised in morning songs of gratitude that would bring tears to your eyes if you could hear them.

The Future You’re Writing

For Amina and her classmates, your generosity creates ripples that will transform generations. Education isn’t just learning—it’s liberation.

This is your impact—mothers touching words they cannot read, written by daughters who will never know such limitation.

Fathers standing taller knowing their children have opportunities they never imagined.

Communities beginning to believe in possibilities beyond subsistence.

“We thank God for how our friends have carried us this far,” Paul says, his voice rich with sincerity.

“Each child represents a future doctor, teacher, or leader whose potential you’ve unlocked.”

Your generosity isn’t just building a school—it’s building lives, families, and a nation’s future, one child at a time.