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Joseph Njoroge: Former ‘chokora’ rescuing boys from the streets

Joseph Njoroge former criminal and now founder of Global Hope Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre, a Children home located in Ngong during the interview. (PHOTO: NANJINIA WAMUSWA/ STANDARD)

I was born in Huruma slums in Eldoret to a single mother who sold illicit brew to make ends meet.

My mother’s meagre income could not support me and my three siblings (I am the second born in a family of four children: Three boys and one girl). When we lacked food, we would take the brew, popularly known as busaa.

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