The story of Linet Moraa
Only 10% of girls from girls from single-parent families succeed in life, mainly due to poverty and peer pressure that leads to girl child prostitution. Single motherhood is adverse in our country, and in most cases, the single mother, out of desperation to feed her children's lives in immorality, unluckily gets infected with the deadly disease AIDS, which later leads to death.
The orphans left behind might follow suit due to poverty as they search the streets for a living. The boys end up in robbery while the girl child falls into prostitution. As an organization, we are doing our best to end all these through education for the less fortunate.
Linet Moraa has lived for eleven years at Keumbu Holiness Orphans Centre. Coming from a single-parent family, this girl doesn’t know who her father is. Her mother passed away shortly after giving birth to her, leaving her under the care of her grandmother. Her three elder siblings dropped out of school after that, unable to further their studies due to financial hardships. As for Linet, she was found by Pastor JaneOnchari, who sympathized with her and brought her to the children’s home after listening to her story.
At the orphanage, Linet was given all the basic needs. She excelled in her final primary examinations, being the top Keboba Primary school student and attending Kereri Girls Secondary School. Today, she is proudly learning at the Cooperative University, Nairobi, Kenya. If it were not for the children’s home that supported Linet, she could be telling a different and negative story today. Maybe she could be a housemaid or even living in the streets, but her success story is an encouragement to all who sponsored her education, food, shelter, and clothing.
