Dr. Jenny and her House Mum

“Jenny” grew up in a military army camp. She has two brothers and one sister. Jenny is the oldest child. Her father is a soldier earning a monthly salary of NZ$40. Because of their financial difficulties her parents decided that they could no longer afford to send Jenny to school. Then her father heard about our home and decided to try to meet with the house parents in the hope that she may be able to continue with her study. So in 2008 she came to live at our girls’ home. At that time she was entering 9th grade.                         

When she completed her 10th grade national government exams – held for students right around the country – we were shocked at her results. We estimate that she came in the top 30 in the country out of a pool of hundreds of thousands of students. At age 16 she gained entry to study at medical college. Unlike other poor children, she was not able to receive a scholarship because she had become a Christian. Instead, good friends of EMPOWER ASIA supported her for her six years of study. She has now just completed her 6th year of study for MBBS and having now completed her “class work” she is a house surgeon in a nearby local hospital. Of course she is very busy since she is working every day and some nights at the hospital. Jenny says that she wants to open a private clinic for poor people. And if God is willing, she also wants to continue on with specialist medical studies.