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Living beyond the orphan name tag

Joseph Mwangi at his water company premises. [photo: Paul Kariuki/Standard]

I lost both my parents in 1998 when I was 15 years old. This remains the darkest phase of my life and growing up as an orphan was very challenging.

Life seemed to have come to a standstill as I tried to reconcile with this tragedy — especially with no parental figures around to look up to. As the last born of the family, you can understand my attachment to them and why my healing took a long time.

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