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John Njoroge
John was orphaned and took to the street at the age of twelve. He was
found by the EAWL teaching and feeding programme which preceded the
building of the Shelter and subsequently moved into the Shelter in
2003. He has one brother who also recently graduated from the Shelter.
John has a warm smile, likes football and wants to become a cook. |
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Josam Angatia
Josam, now sixteen, was only six when the EAWL teaching and feeding
programme found him. His father had died, his mother was an alcoholic
and he had started to run away and ended up living on the street. He is
blind in one eye and has a big scar across his head from an accident
when he was very small and fell into a fire. Josam was among the
original cohort of boys who moved into the Shelter when it was
completed in 2003. He is cheerful and gentle, likes football and helps
in the kitchen. His dream is to become a chef and work at the Belle
Inn, a local restaurant in Naivasha. |
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Joseph Kamau
Orphaned at an early age, Joseph and his two brothers were looked after
by their grandmother but she was unable to feed them so the two older
brothers took to the streets where they spent four years before joining
the Shelter. When the eldest brother graduated he returned to look
after their ailing grandmother and Joseph was able to take his place at
the Shelter last year. His other brother, Petwer Mwaura is still at the
Shelter. Joseph, now twelve, never actually slept on the street but he
used to go there to look for food every day. He is enormously popular
at the Shelter and he is the one who is always at the top of the
acrobatic stunts performed by the boys. He would like to become a
carpenter. |
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Joseph Ng’ang’a
Joseph, now twelve, is the older brother of Nding’uri Njoroge. The
brothers had been left in the care of their grandmother when their
parents died of AIDS, but she was unable to cope and both boys joined
the Shelter in 2005. Joseph has settled in well. His best subjects are
English and Science; he likes football and his dream is to become a
driver and have a family with just two children. |
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Joshua Chege
Joshua is a smiley thirteen-year-old with a gentle sense of humour and
incredibly supple at acrobatics. He has four brothers and two sisters
and has never known his parents who died when he was a baby. His
grandmother brought the children to Naivasha, where their grandfather
rented a room for them to sleep but struggled to feed them so the
children sometimes had to resort to the street to find food during the
day. He joined the Shelter in 2005 and has settled in well. He likes
football, acrobatics and English and would love to learn to drive a
car, become a mechanic and have a family with six children.
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Joshua Kinyanjui
Joshua, now sixteen, was only seven when a broken home and lack of food
drove him to the streets. He lost his father and one of his brothers,
but still sees his other brother, sister and mother. He spent two years
on the street fending for himself until the EAWL feeding programme was
launched when he was nine. He still had to sleep on the street until
2003 when he moved into the newly built Shelter. Now, he is a dynamic
and popular boy who loves football and acrobatics. He has just joined
the local state school and his dream is to become a mechanic, get
married and have four children. |
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