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.
Benjamin is a sweet boy and loves science. He is a partial orphan. His mother has no stable income to care for him and his six siblings. He needs help to aquire a high school education.
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Joel loves science and academics. His parents are unemployed and cannot afford school fees.
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Malik enjoys science and school. He lives with his aunt as his parents are unable to take care of him. His aunt is unemployed and cannot afford a secondary education for him.
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Jacinta loves English and writing. She comes from an extremely poor family in which she would be the first to graduate high school. She hopes to overcome the generational barrier and needs support.
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Titus lives with his sibling and an old poor grandmother. He enjoys math and science and would like to be a doctor.
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Alex lives with 8 siblings and physically handicap father. He loves science and social and would like to become a teacher.
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