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Evans Njagi
Evans is a gentle thirteen-year-old, who came to the Shelter a year ago
in 2005. He has a mother and a sister, who moved to Western Kenya,
leaving him with his grandmother. She was unable to feed him, so he
went to live with an uncle, where he spent the following year with a
bed to sleep in but still forced to go to the street each day to find
food. He has settled in well at the Shelter, where he enjoys maths,
football and acrobatics. His dream is to get a good job with decent pay
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Geoffrey Kamau
Geoffrey is Paul Karanja’s brother, also at the Shelter. He is thirteen
and still finds it difficult to talk about the past that took him age
seven onto the street. He spent one and a half years living on the
street with his big brother of eight. They were among the original
cohort of boys who joined the EAWL feeding programme and then moved in
when the Shelter was built in 2003. Geoffrey is very bright and has
made such good progress with his studies that he is now attending the
local state school, where he recently came fifteenth out of a class of
forty eight. His best subjects are English and Science and his dream is
to become a Doctor so that he can help other people. |
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Geoffrey Karu
Geoffrey has three brothers and four sisters. After their father died,
their mother struggled to feed the family and there was no chance to
send them to school. When she heard about the teaching and feeding
programme, she took Geoffrey there. He was ten years old at the time.
In 2003 when the Shelter was built, he moved in. Now he is fifteen and
no longer has any contact with his family. He enjoys gardening, his
best subject is maths and he would love to become a Doctor. |
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Gerald Maina
Gerald, now sixteen, was among the original cohort of boys who joined
the EAWL teaching programme in 1999, when he was only nine, and then
moved into the newly built Shelter in 2003. He has a mother and sisters
in Naivasha but no father or brothers and he took to the streets at the
age of eight because there was not enough food at home. He is cheerful,
good at crafts and makes beautiful jewellery. His dream is to become a
mechanic. |
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Hezron Kuria
Hezron’s father had a drinking problem and used to beat his wife and
children. His mother left and Hezron struggled with his brother and two
sisters in a house with a violent father and not enough food. He took
to the streets at the age of eleven and was one of the original cohort
of boys who joined the EAWL feeding programme and moved into the
Shelter when it was completed in 2003. He is sixteen now, great at
football and acrobatics, still in touch with his brother and sisters,
and would love to be a mechanic. |
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Isiah Njoroge
Isiah was found at the age of eleven by Shelter staff on a market day
in 2005. He had taken to the street after repeated beatings at the
house of a relative on the death of his mother and father. Isiah has
settled in fantastically at the Shelter. He is obviously intelligent,
likes cows and Swahili and his ambition is to become a carpenter with a
wife and three children. |
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