Hélène is a 26-year-old mother doing everything in her power to build a safe and stable life for her three-year-old son, Robert. Her journey has been marked by courage, sacrifice, and an unshakable hope for a better future.

In 2022, while four months pregnant, Hélène made the difficult decision to leave her marriage and seek safety. She traveled to Mbour, Senegal where a local woman offered her refuge until Robert was born on August 22, 2022. For nearly two years, she remained in Mbour, raising her son with love despite extremely limited resources.

In June 2024, determined to regain her independence and create a stable future, Hélène moved to Dakar in search of work. When she was finally offered a job, her income was still too low to cover both her cost of living and the expenses of caring for Robert. In August 2024, with great pain, she made the heartbreaking decision to temporarily send him to her parents’ village in Dékhaye until she could secure enough income to support them both.

Today, Hélène works full-time, earning 100,000 CFA ($115/month). Despite her dedication, this income cannot meet the basic costs of housing, food, utilities, and school fees — let alone the added costs of bringing Robert to Dakar and providing him with the early education he deserves. Robert’s father is absent and provides no financial or emotional support.

Yet Hélène continues to work, hope, and push forward. She dreams of the day she can:

Bring Robert back to Dakar
Enroll him in preschool
Provide him with a stable home
Build a foundation for a better, safer life

This fundraiser exists to help her do exactly that. Your contribution does more than meet basic needs, it brings a mother and child back together.

It restores dignity.

It provides safety.

It opens the door to education, stability, and hope.

Children thrive when their mothers thrive. And Hélène is doing everything she can, she simply needs support to close the gap.

A Mother Doing Everything She Can

Help Reunite Hélène & Her Son, Robert

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