Ensuring access to education for our kids

One of the goals of KumboKids and Community is to help care for students whose families can’t afford school fees. This care varies from student to student. Some students are helped with study materials like books, pens, pencils, rulers, notebooks, uniforms, and a bit of money ($10 to $40) to buy textbooks of pay for handouts. While others are given partial tuition and fees and still others are paid full tuition and fees. Therefore, all is done according to the needs of the individual student.

Praise be the name of the Lord; may He continue to bless you, my dear donors, with an abundance of his grace so that the sources of your generosity may always be replenished a hundredfold. Through your generous actions, I can pay yearly tuition fees for a good number of students.

– Fr. Emmanuel Fale

Here are some kids from kindergarten through primary, secondary, high school to university levels your donations make it possible for me to help:

Kindergarten and Primary schools

From Catholic School Nkanchi (Fr. Emmanuel’s village): The diocese of Kumbo has the lowest school fees comparatively. In the kindergarten and primary schools, the fees, including books, uniforms, and tuition, stand at $200 per child for a year.

The fees and tuition of the above kids are paid in full, that is, $200 per year (total = $1,600.00 per year). They extend their sincere thanks to all those who help me to help them.

From a School in Yaounde (Capital of Cameroon): The group of students pictured below are supported according to their needs. Their fees and tuition are paid not in full, but according to the needs of each one of them. For the academic year 2021/2022,  we spent $2,100. 00 on all of them.

Secondary and High School

Message from Nyuykikah Josephine:

“I am Nyuykikah Josephine N, From Sabongari ( in the NW region of Cameron). I am presently learning a trade ( fashion and design) In Buea. Father Emmanuel Fale has helped with tuition fees and other needs like books, uniforms, accommodation, rents from primary school through secondary school and high school to the present with my fashion and design training. 

Father Emmanuel had supported me from Primary school to the present level. My Primary school fees and tuition costed 100,000frs ($200) per year. Secondary school fees were 300,000frs ($600) per year including tuition. And then high school fees of 350,000frs ($700) per year, with tuition.  I am very grateful for all the help I have received through him,  and I equally thank his benefactors, and/or donors who are so kind to him by helping him to help others.

 Father Emmanuel, I am deeply indebted to you. You opened my eyes toward education, and where I am now is thanks to you. My prayer is that God will abundantly bless you and all your benefactors.”

Message from students of Saint Aloysius’ Minor Seminary (SAMS), Kitiwum:

We are privileged to have Fr. Emmanuel Fale as our Rector. His dedication and devotion, hard work, love, and concern for others are outstanding. He is so selfless that he goes out to help others in a very big way. He is not only helping some of us with tuition and fees, but he is helping all the  168 students in any way that he can. From time to time, he provides us with materials like pens and pencils, notebooks, and sharpeners. 

We want to thank him and all those who support him to enable him to help us. During our morning prayers, we always pray for our benefactors. We will continue to pray for you, our benefactors, and ask God to continue to bless you and grant your hearts’ desires.

Our tuition and fee vary from class to class, from 274,000 ($548.00) to 349,000 ($698.00). Father Emmanuel is helping some of us with all the fees, and some partially. We remain so grateful to him and to his benefactors. All we promise is to pray for all of you. Thank you, Kiyone, Beri wo, Beri weh, a etc – all meaning, “Thank You.”

College/University

Message from Delphine Berinyuy:

“I am Delphine Berinyuy, married and a parent of three kids. Through the encouragement of Fr. Emmanuel Fale, who met me in Saint Kizito’s Parish,Sabongari, Diocese of Kumbo,  and urged me to continue with my education, I am proud to say that things are working well for me. I sincerely appreciate your efforts towards my education, my dear Father. May  the good Lord Continue to bless you.  I am now in the University of  Dschang and precisely in the faculty of Science of Economics and Management. In fact, I lack words to express my gratitude. All I can say is a thousand times thank you. 

I take this chance to thank all those who help you to help us. I could not believe that I would find myself in school again because I was already a mother, but through your encouragement and support, I am able to reach where I am now. May God continue to bless and reward you abundantly. I promise to always pray for you and all your donors. Please, always tell them that we are grateful for the help they render to us.”

Message from Nchang Ashly:

I am Nchang Ashly, I am studying a degree program in Nursing at Biaka University Institute Buea (BUIB). My school fees for a year totals 540,000Fcfa ($1,080.00). House rents per year totals 350,000fcfa ($700.00). I also buy handouts, books internship materials, food supplies and other needful things...Making the expenditure per year to be very high... about a million fcfa ($2,000.00).

I am extremely grateful to Fr. Emmanuel Fale, for the help he gives me, and I am deeply thankful to those who help him to help me and others. May God continue to bless and reward them for their generosity. I am sure that with this continuous help, I will achieve my goal of becoming a medical doctor. Once more, I thank all those that have been placed on my way to help me in this journey.

Message from Father Emmanuel:

Dear friends, these are a few outreached stories that you have enabled me to carry out.  I could not get all of them to write their stories, but these few samples are to let you know that your  donations are giving a future to numerous children out here. 

With Saint Paul, I say, “Now he who supplies seed to the Sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!”

With your support, I can spend between $10,000 to $12,000 per year to help needy children as described above. Thank you, once more, for your generosity.

Gratefully yours,

– Fr. Emmanuel Fale