For 50 years, I have witnessed poor people living in carton huts or worse, plastic ones, and not having a daily meal.

These circumstances are more than heartbreaking.

Our mission in Cameroon has made a start to the fourth year of a Catholic nursery school, which caters for children aged between three and five years. These little angels were rescued from spending the day playing in mud, climbing trees and risking being run over by a motorbike.

They are doing wonders at school but, as the majority come from poor, miserable families we cannot obtain the small sum we ask of the families as a fee in order to pay the teachers. Nobody else helps us. This is a huge problem.

During the last holidays we built a fence around the school with dried sand bricks, which cost us precisely €3,970.

It was more than necessary because even horses used to look for grass within the school compound and we are responsible for the little ones. Thus, the little money I had brought over with me from Malta was all gone before the end of the year.

Luckily, the Mission Fund helped me to pay the debt. I am so grateful to them and to all those who assist them in one way or another.

I urge readers to continue to be generous with them.

We wish so much to have some educational toys for the little ones but money remains a problem in all we do, starting from the teachers’ salaries.