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Kids at Peter Njenga’s orphanage in Kenya hold up hand-drawn pictures sent from Surrey. They have a drawing exchange program with children at Bethany-Newton United Church.
A place to call home Surrey charity working to expand a Kenyan orphanage for children left parentless by AIDS by Sheila Reynolds HE’S ALWAYS considered himself lucky.
Born in Kenya and one of 20 children in his family, Peter Njenga’s parents were able to ensure he received an education, which
was more than a lot of kids could ask for. But it was when he travelled back to Kenya – after living and working as an accountant in North America – that he realized just how fortunate he was. Visiting the village he grew up in,
Njenga discovered many of his old classmates and friends had disappeared. When he asked his parents, they told him they had died, most of them from AIDS. “They were gone and their kids had nothing and they were just roaming in the streets,” Njenga recalls. “It was very frustrating. A lot of shock.” Upon returning to Canada, he contacted various charities to see if they could help. But it proved difficult because Njenga
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wanted the aid focussed in the area of Kenya he knew needed it most. “I thought to myself ‘why don’t you just use your little bit of money and start. Just start it and see how it goes’.” He founded the Dr. Njenga Foundation of Sustainable HIV/AIDS Projects, with an aim of relieving poverty by providing basic amenities and medical aid to those affected by HIV or AIDS. See FUNDRAISER / Page 4
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