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.
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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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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Ralph lives with his siblingĀ and her single mother. He enjoys math and science and would like to an engineer.
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Ian Goods lives with his siblings and unemployed parents. He elnjoys science andĀ math and would like to become a researcher.
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Racheal loves science and learning. Her parents cannot afford school fees. She needs help to have a better future.
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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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