African Ladies – Evelyne

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“Yes, I can!” That sounds a bit like Obama, but it was Evelyne’s motto even before Obama was elected president. When she was born in Mathare 27 years ago, her father was a caretaker at church, and when his daughter had finished class 4 in school, she got a sponsorship for joining a boarding school. Great chance to get a good education, but hard life for the girl, who only saw her parents twice a year from now on. When she was 15 years old, Evelyne moved back to Nairobi with her brother and went to highschool. Being a good student she got a sponsorship again to become a lab technician, which was less expensive then nursing school, her first choice. But the sponsor ran out of money and Evelyne could not finish her studies. 2008 her brother got sick and died. This was a time when she reached her limits, she…

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