Congo student with Ebola still finds a way to take exams

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When he was done taking his college admission exams, Claude Mabowa Sasi's pencil and papers had to be burned. The Congolese student has Ebola and had to take the test while in isolation.

In this Saturday, July 20, 2019 photo, Claude Mabowa Sasi, 21, who had lost his mother, a brother and a sister to Ebola, takes his college-entry exam in an isolation room at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. It had been his mother's greatest hope that he would go to college. Unable to sit in the same room with other college test-takers, Mabowa took it safely behind a window.

But the exams are held only once a year in Congo, and the 21-year-old Mabowa was being held in medical isolation, unable to sit in the same room with other test-takers.treatment center run by the Alliance for International Medical Action, or ALIMA, came up with a solution. “My mother had told me: ‘My son, you must study. If you have your diploma, you will succeed in life. Even if your parents are gone, you still have your life to live,’” he said.in eastern Congo has killed more than 1,700 people since it started nearly a year ago. Health workers are racing to contain the outbreak, trying to trace, vaccinate and isolate all people who have come into contact with those carrying the highly contagious virus.

 

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Man endangers humanity with deadly virus for selfish reasons, so brave !

I wish him all the best. He deserves to live and honor his late mother's wish. I admire his courage. Keep it up Claude.

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