A student from a poverty-hit community scored the highest exam grades in The Gambia after being supported by a Newark-based charity. Sixteen-year-old Joanna has been sponsored from the age of three through New Life Children’s Centres, which operates two schools in the small West African country. In her GABECE exams – the equivalent of our GCSEs – she finished top of the whole country and is now going on to the next stage of education – with the help of New Life. Joanna lives in extreme poverty. She lives with her mum, dad, brother and sister in a one-room house that had barely enough room for …
