Emmanuel

Emmanuel ended up at BeHoCa through child protection. Unfortunately corruption also occurs here and Emmanuel was placed with us under a lie. This was very hard on Emmanuel, and you saw this in his negative behavior.

The story was that Emmanuel was an orphan and only had his sister. This sister worked in Mombasa and so Emmanuel came from the inland of Kenya to the coast. The sister is too young to take care of him and does not have her own home.

After Emmanuel started to settle down, the real story came out. Emmanuel still has family, but this family can not take care of him due to various circumstances and it would not be responsible either. It was very sad to have seen him carry such a heavy burden. The lie weighed heavily, because he liked to tell stories about his youth, but because of this we came to know more and more what he also started to realize.

In the end we decided to offer him the necessary help and he is doing very well. He opened up completely and changed from a quietly insecure child into a cheerful chatty boy. He likes to help in and around the house and it is an amazing boy who has adapted well to the rest of the family.