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Orphans find refuge in home built from 50,000 plastic bottles

Restoration Children Home, a magnificent house that hosts 38 orphans in Rabai Kilifi County built using 500,000 waste bottles [Courtesy]

Nafisa Khanbhai has literally killed two birds with one stone; she has collected 50,000 plastic waste bottles to save the environment and used them to build a modern orphanage.

The Restoration Children Home atop a hill at Rabai, some few metres from the Mazeras-Kaloleni Road, is a magnificent plastic bottled house that hosts 38 orphans ranging between two to 18 years of age.

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