Building her children’s future

“When I work, and sweat runs down my face, I don’t think of it as water leaving my body; to me, it’s building the future of my children: sweat as the mortar, VisionFund loan as the brick.”

This is how Madam Mary expands the core mission of World Vision and VisionFund: giving certainty to a brighter future for children.

Mary is a mother of four, a food vendor and a determined woman who’s avowed to see to it that her children do not end up like her.

She opines that anytime people talk about the future, they make it look like it’s something promised.

“It’s not,” she says, laughingly adding “If it was promised, I shouldn’t have been here; it takes money and planning.”

Ever since she joined the VisionFund commerce group in 2017, she’s committed the core vision of the organisation to her heart.

She believes that her husband alone can’t take care of the children.

“Since I joined the group, I don’t bother my husband so much about uniforms, school bags and stationery. I too have the power to provide those,” she reveals.

Her eldest daughter, Ivy, entered the college of education.

“Just when Ivy finished high school, COVID 19 came around, and business was bad. My husband couldn’t do everything, but VisionFund gave me a COVID relief loan, it’s that loan that gave Ivy her fees,” she says.

“No child, born or yet to be born should have to suffer. We have a responsibility to guide them through this life.

If our parents couldn’t do it for us, well, we have the knowledge and the loans to do it for our children,” Mary concludes.

Submitted by Abban Enoch Johnson, VisionFund Ghana