Adoption - Sheldon Ouma Odira

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Child number: 52634

Boy, 14 years

Adopted

Child from Island of Hope

Sheldon Ouma Odira has been in adoption programme since year 2017 and he goes to school Island of Hope Humanist School.

City, quarter: Rusinga Island Kamasengre West (Gumba)

State: Kenya

Mother: Mercy Odira, birth 1989, sells fish

Father: Joshua Rimba, birth 1985, fishing

Guardian: -

Description of the situation: Sheldon comes from a polygamist family where his mother is the second wife of the father. In their other [step mothers] house there are four children. He is the last born in there house (Lucy born 2005, Revix born 2007 and Euphresia born 2010). The father does fishing while the mother buys and sell fish. The income they get is little to feed and also provide other basic needs in life to the family (1,000 KES). They live in their own mud house that has three rooms. They cook on fire using charcoal and take water from the lake. The use kerosene for lighting. Sheldon is doing well at present health wise.

Contact: Lucie Valtová, , tel. +420 607 861 547

The project of remote support „Adoptions of African children“ mediates an access to education for poor Kenyan children without pulling them out of their natural environment and community. This project has been running since 2002 and has helped more than 3500 children. School fees at primary school are CZK 7200 (€300) / year, and at secondary school, college and orphanage are CZK 16800 (€660). The payment can also be broken down into multiple instalments.

Section of detailed information provides an overview of how this projects works. In case you have already chosen a child from our database, you can also find here all the steps to be taken in order to adopt a child remotely.

You can also provide the adoptive children by health insurance, that covers any medical treatment the child needs during 1 year.

Adoption Friend Club forms an integral part of this project, and enables to support education of Kenyan children by one-time contribution anytime during the year.

In case you already are an “adoptive parent”, here you will find complementary information and references for adoptive parents about the whole adoption process.

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