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Woman’s calling to rescue ostracized disabled children

Founder of En-Gedi Children's home Margret Njuguna, with one of the children from her home.

She selflessly devoted her retirement benefits to establish a home for children with severe disability where they could find love and escape the misery of being ostracised.

And she aptly named it En-Gedi Children’s Home, after the En-Gedi caves in Israel, alluding to the place in the bible where David sought refuge in the caves from Saul who wanted him dead.

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