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Nelda fights on for Kenya’s deaf children :: Inspire Magazine
Standing outside a supermarket with a tin to raise money or speaking to government officials, Nelda Kroll (below) does everything in her power to help vulnerable children. Aged 93, she continues to fight for those who were uncared for in a remote area of Kenya, deaf children whom she loves as her own – all 56 of them.
These children were among the most vulnerable in the world. Traditionally, children with disabilities are considered to be evidence of their parents’ wrong doing and have died of neglect and hunger.
Also in Africa today the evil misconception persists that people can be cured of HIV/AIDS by having sex with a virgin child. Many men seek to conceal their identity by deliberately preying on children who cannot identify them because they are blind or deaf and mute.
As a Christian¸ Enoch Aloo realised that children within his own Jalou tribe were vulnerable and needed protection. He did what he could, using one room of a school for the children he tried to protect. Yet when Nelda was reunited with him in Kenya after many years, he was ill and weak. On his deathbed in 1992 he pleaded with her, “Mama, don’t let the deaf children down”.
Now children at risk have their own safe haven at Lambwe Christian School for the Deaf. Affectionately known by the people of Kenya as Mama Richard (with reference to her firstborn son), Nelda Kroll has made tremendous inroads for ‘her children’ at the school.
Due to a ‘chance meeting’ of Nelda and Siloam Christian Ministries Director Richard Norton in 1995, the charity also became involved with support. Although Siloam sponsors other ministries in Kenya, this project seemed more challenging because of its remoteness from the capital Nairobi.
Standing outside a supermarket with a tin to raise money or speaking to government officials, Nelda Kroll (below) does everything in her power to help vulnerable children. Aged 93, she continues to fight for those who were uncared for in a remote area of Kenya, deaf children whom she loves as her own – all 56 of them.
These children were among the most vulnerable in the world. Traditionally, children with disabilities are considered to be evidence of their parents’ wrong doing and have died of neglect and hunger.
Also in Africa today the evil misconception persists that people can be cured of HIV/AIDS by having sex with a virgin child. Many men seek to conceal their identity by deliberately preying on children who cannot identify them because they are blind or deaf and mute.
As a Christian¸ Enoch Aloo realised that children within his own Jalou tribe were vulnerable and needed protection. He did what he could, using one room of a school for the children he tried to protect. Yet when Nelda was reunited with him in Kenya after many years, he was ill and weak. On his deathbed in 1992 he pleaded with her, “Mama, don’t let the deaf children down”.
Now children at risk have their own safe haven at Lambwe Christian School for the Deaf. Affectionately known by the people of Kenya as Mama Richard (with reference to her firstborn son), Nelda Kroll has made tremendous inroads for ‘her children’ at the school.
Due to a ‘chance meeting’ of Nelda and Siloam Christian Ministries Director Richard Norton in 1995, the charity also became involved with support. Although Siloam sponsors other ministries in Kenya, this project seemed more challenging because of its remoteness from the capital Nairobi.