After gaining impressive results last year, Dominique (see June 09 newsletter), hopes there will be a sponsor to assist him through university.
My name is Dominique Fragosa , I am 21 and I have a brother and two sisters. I am an Angolan citizen, but I only lived in the war torn Angola for nine years. My family left there to settle in South Africa in search of a better life. This was due to war, poverty and poor education.
Living in South Africa was twice as hard, compared to Angola. At first I was forced to live in a township called Langa. There I witnessed my first crime. We were taken out of the passageway we used to sleep in, and were threatened with a knife, because my father did not have a job and we had no money to pay the rent. They wanted to kill us. They started with the neighbor by burning him alive in the house while he was asleep. When they tried to come get us, something else grabbed their attention.  It was the neighbor's kombi bus. They tried to steal it. In the chaos, we managed to escape from them. From that moment my father decided to take us to a place called the Ark.
The Ark is an orphanage. There my parents abandoned us. I lived in the Ark for 5 long, painful years. It is sad knowing that you have someone that brought you into this world and in the end he doesn't even care about you. These are memories of when I was nine years old. In the Ark they gave food and shelter only, but what became of you was nothing to do with anyone. After a long life of suffering in the Ark without parents and any direction in life, not knowing what would become of me, a miracle happened.
 Vic Jackopson came to our church and when he saw our need he decided to buy a house. The house was called Rainbow House and we were given the opportunity to live there and to go to high school.

Well Done Dominique