RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Child Rights Am­bas­sador Gabriel Hamp­ton, who sat the SEA ex­am­i­na­tion on Wednes­day, said he is re­lieved that the ex­am is over.

He, how­ev­er, sent out words of en­cour­age­ment to oth­er pupils who had sat the ex­ams and who came out feel­ing a bit de­pressed and not good with them­selves about how they han­dled the ex­ams to “not to wor­ry.”

“Don’t wor­ry! There will be a lot of oth­er op­por­tu­ni­ties and you should be proud of your­self, re­gard­less of the out­come. It takes a lot of courage to even at­tempt and sit the ex­am,” Hamp­ton said.

He added that he was hap­py with the prepa­ra­tion he made with his Stan­dard Five teacher Na­dia Ogeer­al­ly.

“The ex­am was good. I’m go­ing to spend the af­ter­noon with my friends and play­ing on­line games,” Hamp­ton said.

“For the rest of the school year we have lots of plans and things to do for my foun­da­tion, I can, and our school has a lot planned for us next term,” he added.

Hamp­ton is a Child Rights Am­bas­sador who is cur­rent­ly try­ing to raise funds to the tune of just more than half a mil­lion dol­lars to fund a trip to In­dia for two chil­dren who have been di­ag­nosed with can­cer.

Hamp­ton, a pupil of the Grant Memo­r­i­al Pres­by­ter­ian School in San Fer­nan­do, is a child af­ter God’s own heart—so com­pas­sion­ate and a strong be­liev­er and ad­vo­cate for chil­dren’s rights.

Hamp­ton launched his “I Can Cam­paign” about two years ago and is now em­bark­ing on a life-chang­ing jour­ney for two chil­dren—Je­hue Thomas, eight, and An­to­nio Paci­fique, 15, who are both in dire need of a bone mar­row trans­plant in In­dia. Thomas is cur­rent­ly in In­dia un­der­go­ing treat­ment but is in need of fur­ther fund­ing.

The trip and med­ical ex­pens­es are ex­pect­ed to cost $1.3 mil­lion. How­ev­er, with Gov­ern­ment’s as­sis­tance, Gabriel’s goal is to raise $600,000 to be split be­tween Thomas and Paci­fique.

“The I can cam­paign is made up of rights to try to help chil­dren know about their rights and to help them suc­ceed, but most­ly now we are help­ing peo­ple that have can­cer be­cause this stage we are in. In the I Can cam­paign is ‘We can beat Can­cer’ and I want­ed to make sure that chil­dren that have can­cer want them to feel no pain from hav­ing it,” Gabriel said in a pre­vi­ous in­ter­view with the Guardian Me­dia.