Trent

Zimbabwe is an African country previously known as Rhodesia and Harare is its capital. It gained freedom in the year 1980.

Our subject matter is about a lady of letters from that country.

Trent born in 1965 attended elementary school for one year and her father married her off when she was 11 years old. The only thing she got through marriage is blows and babies.After a decade a head of an international Aid group " Heifer International" visited her village . Mr. Jo Luck head of that group interacted with the villagers and told the villagers that they should stand up, nurture dreams and change their lives. Trent, immediately scribbled in a piece of paper that she wanted to get a degree, do her studies in USA and get a doctorate.She has heard from so many Africans that knowledge is the only key to prosperity.

She met Jo Luck and joined in the group . From the money she got she studied in correspondence course. She developed her knowledge by interacting with the members of Heifer International . She saved all her money so that she could fly to USA for higher studies.

She took all her four kids along with her to USA. Trent's mom sold her cows, neighbours sold their goats and helped her to get tickets.She got a seat in Oklahoma University. In 1998 she flew to United States.

The family lived in an abandoned trailer shivering in cold and going hungry for several nights. Her classmates helped her with left overs, her friends who worked in malls and supermarkets told her that they have dumped foods which have crossed the expiry dates in their dumping zones and she had all those.She used to visit the Walmart super market in the early morning and she used to take all those thrown away things.

She washed cars, utensils and did all the jobs.

After knowing her tribulations one NGO Heifer international helped with a small one room shelter. She finished her under graduation and joined for UG.

She did research in Aids in Africa and got a parttime job in her college.

Now she is pursuing her research in Michigan university and has almost achieved all her goals.

Come December she will be awarded a Ph.D. A one time less than a year elementary school drop out will be now Dr.Trent.All dreams are possible.

(Courtesy Nov.14 edition of New York Times. Thanks to D.Kristof, the author of this article.)