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May 16, 2016

Your Gifts Saved Racheal’s Life!

Orphan Girl in Uganda with Liver Disease

Do you remember Racheal? She’s the 16 year-old-girl living in the Kireka Kinship Project in Uganda who nearly died due to a liver disease (check out Racheal’s story). You remember how terrified Racheal was that she would die, as she watched her foot and her abdomen swell unnaturally because of the disease affecting her liver. […]

Article by Katie Kmetty / Child Stories, Medical / africa, Kinship United, Medical, uganda

March 17, 2016

“I Don’t Want To Die”

Racheal Nanfuka at Kireka Kinship Home in Kenya

Racheal Nanfuka came into Jungo Kinship Home after both of her parents died. Just a few years later Racheal started to get sick. Here is Racheal’s story from her own perspective: In the middle of last year, my stomach started swelling. Everyone at school thought I was pregnant and no one believed that I wasn’t, […]

Article by Katie Kmetty / Child Stories, Medical / africa, Kenya, Kinship, Kinship United, Medical

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