The online World: How could people trust me with their money just by knowing me online?

I have been asking myself without end!

Why would people I don't know, people I have never met out of the web space, believe in me?
Why would people believe in a project that they have seen no verifiable indicator about, order than a mere blog/facebook post about it?
Why would people trust me with their money, hard-earned money that they toil day in day out to earn, just to pay school fees in a village that they have probably never heard about?
Why would people believe in an unregistered grassroot organization claiming to give scholarship to girls?
I have been asking myself 'why' and 'why' until I can ask no more...

The internet is really a wonder space...this has proven itself to me beyond reasonable doubts.

When I started putting up posts of the Scholarship for Secondary School Girls in Bai Kuke, I was only hoping to inspire others to do same in their communities. I never, never for once, thought that people would drop in to support my own very course. I was amazed at the countless mails and chat messages of appreciation and blessings poured upon me from all my facebook friends and World Pulse sisters. I was truly humbled by the show of appreciation, and motivated to do even more.

Every single day, ever since I re-echoed the scholarship programme as the school year is coming, has been a blessing to me. Such blessings, I have never encountered outside the web space. After all, if the internet was not there, how many people would I have walked up to, to tell them about my scholarship programme? How many strangers would I have instantly turned to my friends and tell them about my scholarship? How many people would I have succeeded in convincing that my programme was real?

The big question is, Would I have even thought of offering a scholarship to girls in the first place? I don't think so. It is thanks to the internet, thanks to the World Pulse training that I birthed the initiative.

I have suddenly become an ambassador for web involvement. I tell everyone I meet that the internet is a fountain of miracles. If I think of the mails and chat IM that I have received from supporters, tears of joy roll down my eyes in the middle of my sleep. Take a look at some selected lines of the messages I have received from sponsors, people I don't know.
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"I commend what you are doing. I will like to support. I will confirm with you how I want to do it," Cynthia Nfor on July 9th 2014
"Please may I have your surname and name. I will send you 25000frs for now as time goes on when I have something extra I will send again by the grace of God," Cynthia Nfor on July 24th 2014.

I salute Cynthia Nfor for believing in me, for trusting someone she has never met out of the net.

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"Hello! Greetings from the UK. I saw your message about the scholarship. I will be in Bambui by next weekend. I would like to contribute my mite. Could you send me your contact info," Mr. Ngwa, on June 28th 2014.

Wao! Mr. Ngwa finally came to Cameroon and handed me 100.000frs (approximately $210). We were meeting, live, for the first time.
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"I have been seeing ur generous activities towards ur village and I praise ur efforts. Today people like u are numbered. How can I support ur efforts from this end? ... I have to send the money to u and u will do the rest,?
U will give me ur names as they appear in ur identity card and ur phone number to inform u as soon as that is done, ok?..." Mr. Acha on the 21st of July 2014

Thank heavens, Mr. Acha has called me to inform me he will be sending money tomorrow! I have never met him outside the internet.
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"Name of sender is Ebot Ojong Jones....Western Union.....Secret question is Can we ?....& the answer is Yes we can.....The amount is 50.000frs. ....& the control number is 7261086865 & sent from Germany.It's not much but from my heart. Meanwhile we shall improve on it with time. I appreciate ur time and l am behind you in my own small way. God bless you," Ernest Ojong on July 6th 2014.

Thank you Mr. Ernest Ojong, I cashed the money without any hitch
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Dear Pulsarians, I cannot put copy and paste all the comments and actions of supporters. They are enormous and enriching. I still cannot believe that a single click can create such lasting change. While I laud the power of the web, I thank God for using me to touch the lives of little school girls in need in my little community in Bai Kuke. Even if I die today, I know I will be remembered for at least touching the lives of 8 girls.

I urge everyone not to underestimate the power of the web. Its miracles and opportunities are outstanding. Even though I face the challenge of accessing the net sometimes for weeks because of poor internet connection, or because I am in my village in Bai Kuke that has no connection, I feel really empowered anytime I click connect on the Camtel Dialogue Box on my PC. I feel really empowered anytime I sit behind a computer to connect to the internet. I feel like I am on top of the world when I am browsing the net. I feel like I am over exploiting the net, but I have no choice.

Right now, I was just thinking. Something told me that if internet dis-connectivity was to determined by how much you have made use of it, I would have been disconnected a long time ago. This is because, more than 50% of my day is spent on the net, in my little room.

Once again, thank you World Pulse and thank you online subjects for proving me to me that the web is a wonder world!