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Cleophaus Achollah is one
of the Marafiki AIDS Ministry's shining success
stories.
Cleophaus is an AIDS orphan
who, at age 15, within a three year period lost mother,
father, grandfather, sister, and brother-in-law to AIDS.
Since school in Kenya is not free, Cleophaus was forced
to drop out of school when he had no family to support
him.
To survive, he was forced to
scavenge menial tasks which paid barely enough to eat.
The schoolboy with great hopes of becoming a doctor,
began to live on the streets. For two years, until
Cleophaus was 17, he was a street boy in Nairobi. In
1998, the Rev. John Nganga of the Marafiki AIDS Ministry
found him and brought him into the Marafiki Children's'
Center Orphanage.
At the Children's' Center,
Cleophaus went back to school and graduated near the top
of his class. Because he wanted to be a doctor, Marafiki
sent him to Columbus, Ohio in the United States in 2001.
Today, Cleophaus is a sophomore at Columbus State
College in Columbus, Ohio, studying premed.
"Making someone who had no
hope to have hope in life is the greatest legacy a
person can ever leave in this world. I am a witness and
I have full knowledge of what those orphans undergo. I
am a worthy example of how the sponsorship money works a
colossal thing to the life of those who had no
hope." Cleophaus says.
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Marafiki
means "friends" in Swahili
ENLARGING
THE MARAFIKI
CHILDREN’S CENTER ORPHANAGE
ALL
CONTRIBUTIONS TO MARAFIKI AIDS MINISTRY, INC. ARE TAX
DEDUCTIBLE. |
