Age: 13 Birthday: 2003 Grade: Primary, Level 4 Mercy Athieno came to Awinjo House on May 14, 2009. Both of her parents are still alive, but her father has polio and cannot walk and they have 11 children and are extremely poor. When we visited the family, we could see that Mercy was sick and... (Read more)
Age: 11 Birthday: August 2005 Grade: Primary, Level 3 Agnes came to Awinjo House on June 14, 2014. Agnes’s father was killed, and her mother remarried and has two children by the second husband. Neither Agnes' mother nor step father work, and the conditions in their home are volatile. Agnes had some struggles when she... (Read more)
Age: 16 Birthday: June 6, 2000 Grade: Primary, Level 7 Natasha Lovisa came to Awinjo House on March 14, 2016. Natasha's mother died of HIV in 2003, her father is unknown, and she was raised by her grandfather who is a widower. Because her grandfather could not pay her school fees, Natasha was chased away... (Read more)
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