Adoption - Geoffrey Wishley Otieno

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Child number: 52849

Boy, 9 years

Adopted

Child from Island of Hope

Geoffrey Wishley Otieno has been in adoption programme since year 2020 and he goes to school Island of Hope Humanist School.

City, quarter: Lambwe Ruri Owich

State: Kenya

Mother: Olgar Apondi, birth 1979, sells fish

Father: Michael Otieno, birth 1976, fisherrman

Description of the situation: Geoffrey lives with his parents and siblings Emmaculate (2001), Sylvet (2002), Sheila (2004) Frank (2006) and Rolison (2011). The mother is selling fish and father is fisherman. Family has only around 3.000 KES/30 EUR per month. The family lives in one room mud house which is rented. They use firewood for cooking, paraffin lamp for lighting and they get water from the lake. Geoffrey is healthy boy. He likes playing football. In 2020 he started to attend kindergarten. He attends the scond class in basic school now (only thanks to the adoptive parent). Due to the little income that is family earning, it is hard to meet basic family needs and paying school fees should be a big problem. Geoffrey needs support of 2,400 CZK/100 EUR per term.

Contact: Marta Vašíčková, , tel. +420 602 743 003

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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