Wema Children's Centre and Highway Academy are a private orphanage and school in Western Kenya in an area with some of the highest poverty and HIV/AIDS rates. Kenyans Teresa Wati and Stephen Juma formed Wema to give poor and orphaned children a home and a high quality education. Today at Wema, 510 children are provided with a loving home, three nutritious meals a day, and most importantly, an education at one of the highest performing primary and secondary schools in Kenya.
Harvinder and her sister stay with their aged and ailing grandmother who cannot provide for or educate them. They need help to continue with their education.
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Victoria is a bright but needy child. Her parents have no meaningful source of income but have a huge number of dependants.
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Milcah's father, the sole breadwinner, got an injury that crippled him making him unable to work. She and her siblings were left with no one to support them. She needs help continuing with her education.
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Marko lives with his mum, a single parent who is overburdened by raising her kids ever since the death of their father in 2012.
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Pauline is an orphan who needs help to continue with her education. She loves going to school and studying sciences.
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Despite having bith his parents, Geofrey's parents are unable to provide for him and his three siblings owing to having no stable source of income and no property of their own. He needs help to have a livelihood and education.
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