The following states clearly why Made in the Streets needs your support of prayer and funding. Young teens like Eunice "fall in the cracks" created by the failures of families and societies. Made in the Streets exists to bring the possibility of new life to kids like Eunice. One of our Team members, Linda Ntinyari, has worked with Eunice and written the case history below. She is now seeking to get the mother and the government to allow Eunice to become part of our family.
Subject: CASE HISTORY - EUNICE WANJIRU
Name : Eunice Wanjiru
Age : 13 years
Parents : Mother - Ann Wambui
Father -
Wachira - Separated
Education : Class 7
Home : Kiambu
Base : Muthurwa
Siblings : Lillian Wangari - 9 years, Samuel
Mbugua - 6 years
STATEMENT
Eunice was first rescued by a home in Nairobi called Rescue Dada
Centre in 2012 when she was on the streets with her friends. They were living
in Lunga Lunga when her parents separated and her mother was left to fend
for her and younger sister who was still an infant. They slept for a while in
the streets until they found a house in Muthurwa.
She stayed in Rescue Dada for one year and was then taken to a
home in Ruiru called Ruiru Children Home Care Center. She stayed there from
mid-2013 to around October 2015 when the owner of the home died. After she died
the government found out that while her records said that she had 24 children
in reality she had 72 children so the management was told to take the children
back to their homes or find a placement home for them.
She was taken back to Rescue Dada where they found her a new home
called Blessing Home in Ruai sewage area. She ran away in February because her
hand got burnt and they did not take her to hospital or give her any kind of
medical care and she also says they were badly treated there. She went back to her mother in Muthurwa where
she has been helping her to do odd jobs.
In early April when she was coming back from an errand in the
early evening she was called by an acquaintance who told her she was needed at
a certain house by a friend of her mother.
When she entered the house it was locked behind her and she was raped by
three men and then taken outside and left to fend for herself. She feared her
mother and told a friend who took her to her mother and they told her. Her
mother refused to take her to hospital. She took herself to hospital the
following day and was given ARVs as a preventive measure and given a
prescription for emergency pills. She told her mother who said that she had no
money to buy any food let alone medicine.
She
is now pregnant and in dire need of care and protection.
Note: As you can see, Eunice has been taken from place to place but is essentially on her own unless MITS can take her in. Thanks for praying for her and helping us take care of kids like Eunice. Blessings, charles
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