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.
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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Carlos is a handicapped child. Because of his disability, his father abandoned him and his mother shortly after birth. His mother does not have any meaningful source of income and depends on well wishers to cater for him. He needs help continuing with his 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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Grace is a total orphan who needs help continuing with her studies, having lost both her parents to HIV.
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Eugene's father abandoned them with their mother having no source of income and being reduced to begging and working manual and menial jobs to live. He needs help continuing with his education.
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Florence is an orphan who needs help to continue with her education. She loves going to school and studying sciences.
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