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Kemnda Ministries Update

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Street children:

In Chad there are a great number of children living on the streets. These children, for various reasons (like the death of one or both parents, poverty, rejection or abuse) live and sleep on the streets, scrounging for meals in garbage heaps and finding themselves totally alone when in need of medical or other help. They have no one to pay for their schooling and no one to turn to for protection and to defend their rights. They grow up with no training in what is right or wrong, and no knowledge of how to participate in normal society.

​Orphaned babies:

Chad has one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world. Babies who lose their mothers during childbirth are at high-risk of malnutrition or death, as it can be very difficult for the family to pay for the powdered milk and look after the motherless child. In some places, orphaned babies are surrounded by stigma, and no one wants to oversee their care for fear of being themselves struck by bad luck or sterility. We believe strongly in children staying with their biological family, but we know that orphaned children that do remain with other family members are at much higher risk of being mistreated, abused or treated as family slaves.

Kemnda Orphan Ministries focuses its care on the most vulnerable orphaned children who do not have parents or other adult caregivers in their lives that are able to raise them.