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.
Mercy lives with her 4 siblings and her aunt 's family of 6. She enjoys science and math. She would like to become a doctor when she grows up.
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Tabitha is an academic superstar. She loves Swahili and languages. She comes from a large family with parents who cannot support their home needs. She is very bright and promising and needs help to fulfill that potential.
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Purery enjoys scoial studies and learning. He lives with an ill parent who cannot afford school fees.
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John enjoys reading and religion. His parents are farmers and cannot afford school fees.He is constantly out of school because they lack the ability to pay.
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Abraham is a hard working boy who loves math. His parents are jobless, and they cannot pay school fees.
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Velma lives with her 7 siblings and unemployed parents. She enjoys math and science and she would like to become a doctor.
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