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These orphans are my joy

The Founder and Director of Likoni Aids Orphanage Reverend Ernest Ombeva at the Orphanage at Likoni in Mombasa County on March 16 2016. The Orphanage takes care of 30 orphans. Photo by Mwangi Muraguri/Standard

Sometime in 2000, I went for a house-to-house pastoral ministry in Likoni. In one house, I met an elderly woman taking care of six orphaned children.

When I inquired why the children were not in school, an elderly woman told me the children had been orphaned after their parents died of HIV and Aids.

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