Mildred’s journey to quality education in The Gambia: from poverty to academic excellence  - SOS Children's Villages

Mildred’s journey to quality education in The Gambia: from poverty to academic excellence  - SOS Children's Villages

Mildred*, age 12, was born into a poor family in Kerawan Badala, a small village in The Gambia’s Upper River Region.  She remembers very little of her mother, who abandoned her and her younger brother to remarry another man across the border in Casamance, a town in neighbouring Senegal, south of The Gambia. . Her father’s poverty was so severe her mother left him, claiming he could not meet her needs.  Today, Mildred lives with her father, a sin…