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Mercyline was a single mother. She lived in Nairobi with her 8-year-old daughter, Anna. She worked as a laundress and was just about managing to make ends meet. The child’s father had not been seen for years. She had no other ‘well-wishers’. For about two …
Do you remember? Ever since his father’s death during unrest in his neighbourhood – one of the most dangerous in Nairobi – Jacob has been living with his two younger sisters and his single mother. The small family lives in a single room, without water …
Ann is a single mother of two children (aged 12 and 13) and lives in the Kawangware slum in Nairobi. She earns a living doing poorly paid odd jobs in her neighbourhood and manages to provide her two children with a school education. Ann is …
Maximillah is a 28-year-old single mother with a young child. Due to severe lower abdominal pain, she was no longer able to have sexual intercourse with her husband, whereupon he left her. Without a husband, the family’s income was therefore extremely low. However, the severe …
Fidel, the only son of 27-year-old single mother Florence Akinyi, lives with his mother in Kisumu Ndogo, Nairobi. They both live in subhuman conditions, without water or electricity. Their monthly income amounts to the equivalent of just over €40. But that’s not all… Fidel was …
We recently received the following email from Dotty, our nurse in Nairobi: Hello friends, I hope you are all well. I would like to draw your attention to a case that we have dealt with before. The case was not pursued further after the medical …
Do you remember? 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, their financial circumstances were not sufficient to provide a medical solution to Roseline’s …
Pamela was due to undergo surgery to remove a large goitre… 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 living on the absolute brink …
What a difference! Jennifer’s mother lived with her and three other children in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum. She earns a living doing odd jobs. Her husband is in prison for theft and she, like her young daughter Jennifer, is HIV-positive. Jennifer was admitted to Gertrude …
Novonje, a mother in her mid-30s, was shot by cattle thieves when they came to her remote village to steal zebu (cows). She suffered extremely serious injuries to her left leg, and one of her eight children was even killed in the shooting. The emergency …