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Here is an emergency call we received a few days ago from our partner, “The Nest” children’s home in Nairobi: Yesterday we rescued five children, aged between 2 and 10, from the Muranga area: The mother has been arrested on charges of severe child neglect. …
Kenya · Nairobi · 29 years
Social situation: Maximillah is a 28-year-old single mother with a young child. Due to severe lower abdominal pain, she is no longer able to have sexual intercourse with her husband, whereupon he left her. Without a husband, the family’s income is extremely low, particularly as …
Kenya · Nairobi · 35 years
Social circumstances: A single mother of two children, after her husband left her due to her illness. She lives in Kibera, a poor suburb of Nairobi all too familiar to our donors, in appalling conditions – without water or electricity – with a friend who …
Kenya · Nairobi · 40 years
Social circumstances: Pamela is the mother of five children and the second wife of a man who has since left her because of her health problem. Since then, she has been struggling financially to the very limit. She can only find occasional work and therefore …
Madagascar · Antananarivo · 11 years
Social circumstances: Rantohasina comes from a poor Madagascan family, which faces a particular challenge due to his medical condition. Medical condition: Rantohasina was a perfectly normal little boy and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. That was until the day his parents realised something was …
Madagascar · Antananarivo · Newborn
Social circumstances: Chrislin’s young mother, Tahiana, was born the fourth of six children in an impoverished family. As her parents were unable to provide for the whole family, Tahiana was sent to live with relatives on the north coast when she reached school age. When …
Kenya · Nairobi · 12 years
Social situation: Roseline is a 12-year-old orphan who lives with her grandmother in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. Like many African grandmothers, Roseline’s grandmother takes active care of her granddaughter. However, her financial circumstances are not sufficient to provide a medical solution to Roseline’s problem. …
Kenya · Nairobi · 26 years
Social circumstances: Mercyline is a single mother to her eight-year-old daughter, Anna, in Nairobi. She works as a laundress and is just about managing to make ends meet. The child’s father has not been seen for years. There are no other ‘well-wishers’. Medical problem: For …
We have once again received a request for emergency medical aid from our partner NGO ‘Mobile Hilfe Madagaskar’ in Madagascar: “Good afternoon, we have two new cases for which we would like to ask for your support. A young woman, single, in her early twenties, …
Kenya · Thika · 9 years
Social situation: Stanford Njoroge is 9 years old and, together with his three siblings and his mother Alice, was among the 600,000 refugees who were forced to leave their home during the post-election unrest in Kenya in 2007 and seek refuge in a refugee camp. …