Seven-year-old Maimlina Chepkemoi in class
Rhonda slum Nakuru, Kenya, Africa 2002.
Maimlina’s twenty-two-year-old mother has disappeared, leaving her and her sister with their grandmother, who works as a vegetable seller. They have never known their father. When I first visited the Rhonda slum at Lake Nakuru, I was struck not only by the beauty of the children who lived there but by their optimism and determination in overcoming the adverse conditions surrounding them....
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Rhonda slum Nakuru, Kenya, Africa 2002.
Maimlina’s twenty-two-year-old mother has disappeared, leaving her and her sister with their grandmother, who works as a vegetable seller. They have never known their father. When I first visited the Rhonda slum at Lake Nakuru, I was struck not only by the beauty of the children who lived there but by their optimism and determination in overcoming the adverse conditions surrounding them. Most of these children have been affected in some way by the AIDS epidemic. Many are orphaned or living with grandparents in shanty houses that cost about $5 a month to rent.
Aid organization, Learning and Development Kenya (LDK), initiated the Rhonda Children’s Home and Learning Center in the Rhonda slums. Like an oasis, this school helps to educate children of all abilities to help them eventually merge into some sort of educational system. The organization also offers the community support the children or their families may need.
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