1.0World Vision Advocacyhttps://www.worldvisionadvocacy.orgLena Peacockhttps://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/author/lcampbellworldvision-org/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="qJe3Foqhuq"><a href="https://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/2022/10/12/transforming-education/wvus-30hf-resource-trip-7/">WVUS 30HF Resource Trip</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/2022/10/12/transforming-education/wvus-30hf-resource-trip-7/embed/#?secret=qJe3Foqhuq" width="600" height="338" title="“WVUS 30HF Resource Trip” — World Vision Advocacy" data-secret="qJe3Foqhuq" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/D087-0517-6jpg_1009188.jpg1200801Marie Ngalula, 14 yr-old girl, wishes her family could afford to send her to school. Photos of her in a classroom at St. Celestin school, where she would attend if she was still in school. School Marie’s father laments his inability to send her back to school. “Marie is intelligent,” he says. “She could help me very much someday. I’d like to send her back to school but I can’t afford it. I’d like if she could further her studies even as far as university so that she can help me take care of her brothers and sisters someday.” Marie and her friends often play on the grass in front of the school they can’t afford to go to. Marie lives with her father, Alexandre Tshimanga, her mother, Ntumba Kalombo Antoinette and her brothers and sisters: 1-Kena Tshimanga, 12 2-Kankonde Moise, 10 3-Munamba Angel, 8 4-Musungayi Andre, 6 5-Mubuyi Tshimanga, 4 Marie lives in a small village outside of Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, called Tubuluku, which means antelopes (plural). Her house is a two-room hut with a thatched roof. Handful of wooden chairs are the only furniture. She lives here with an extended family of 13. Home Life Marie is a bright girl but there is a sadness in her eyes. Marie’s mother is in the nearby health clinic with a staph infection that has caused a huge abscess on her right side. It has become very serious. As a result, Marie has assumed many of the household duties. She’s forced, at 14, to assume the duties of an adult. Besides cooking for her brothers and sisters, she sweeps up the husks from palm nuts she crushes. She saves the husks to use as kindling for the fire. Marie and her siblings all sleep together in one room, huddled together for warmth and cover by an old and torn mosquito net. Hunger Marie’s family is desperately hungry in the days we visit them. Because her mother is sick and his father spends his days tending to her in the clinic, there is no money for food. Because there isn’t any cassava flour and cornme