Mrs. N – “I didn't think it was real"

Mrs. N – “I didn’t think it was real.”

“The DWF came through for me a few months after my husband died and paid my son’s first school fees. When I heard about this foundation at first I thought it was a joke.”

When Mrs. N lost her husband, she was still in school herself. A young widow with two children and no stable job, life quickly became about survival — not goals or dreams. She started doing petty trading just to put food on the table.

“I thought it was just another promise that wouldn’t lead anywhere,” she says about hearing of DWF. “Until someone actually visited me. That day changed everything.”

DWF paid her son’s school fees — something she had been struggling with on her own.

Her son, who was just starting out in Nursery 1 at the time, is now in Nursery 3 and doing well. She beams with pride when she talks about him. “He’s doing great in his academics. Seeing him in school, growing, learning — it gives me joy.”

She still can’t believe people exist who give without asking for anything back.

“The foundation has given me reasons to smile again,” she says. “It gave us hope. When I had lost everything — they reminded me that we weren’t forgotten.”

Mrs. N hopes to learn how to produce paints one day — a new skill she believes could help her create a better life for her family.

“But for now,” she says, “I’m just deeply grateful. I really am.”