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Kenya · Nairobi · * 1980 + 1979
Ann and Susann are single mums to two teenage children and live in the Kawangware slum in Nairobi. They earn a living doing poorly paid odd jobs in their neighbourhood and each manage to provide their two children with a school education. Ann and Susann …
Anne Gathoni Njoki is 28 years old and is the eldest of four children. She lives with one of her younger sisters in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. Due to financial difficulties, she was forced to leave school after Year 7. It was impossible for …
Do you remember? Jonathan from Thika, a town south-east of the Kenyan capital, was admitted as an emergency case by the District Children’s Office to our partner children’s home, THE NEST. His mother had been imprisoned a few days earlier for a criminal offence, and …
Jhasmin Paredes was born in La Paz. Even during her first year of life, her mother suspected she might have a heart defect, as Jhasmin tired easily and had difficulty breathing. When she was two years old, the paediatrician confirmed that she did indeed have …
Gilbert is still missing… Gilbert is currently unemployed as he is virtually unable to walk. Previously, he carried out odd jobs in the automotive sector. Since the death of his father and his mother’s chronic illness, as the eldest child he has been solely responsible …
Tatiana is a 20-year-old single mother of twin girls; she has been living with her parents until now and is unemployed. She suffers from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease which, for reasons as yet unknown, affects the body and attacks its own organs. …
Madagascar: When Chrislin was 17 days old, his mother took him to the paediatric ward at the children’s hospital. His heart was beating very slowly, and then he suddenly stopped breathing. Despite the limited intensive care facilities available, he was initially stabilised and appeared to …
Care parcel has arrived in Santo Domingo! Prof. Peter Stoeter – former Head of Neuroradiology at Mainz University Hospital – who is now working as a volunteer doctor in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, asked Tulisa for your support: The “La Fundación Dr. Juan M. Taveras …
Edwin from Cumana, Venezuela, finally has suitable prosthetics! Dr Ana Maria de Abaffy Steffens, a plastic surgeon from Caracas, Venezuela, asked for help last spring in providing prosthetics and effective physiotherapy for little Edwin. As a reminder: Due to the dire economic situation in Venezuela, …
Damaris, a single mother of two children living in the Kibera slum in Nairobi: since 2010, following the birth of her first child, Damaris has suffered from extreme breast enlargement, which increased dramatically again after the birth of her second son, George, and led to …