Meet Alamanzani
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Personal Information
Name: Alamanzani Edrisa Mwambu
Gender: Male
Age: 8
Birthday: September 11, 2000
Nationality: Ugandan
District: Busia
Grade in School: Primary 1
Favorite Hobbies: Football, English
Religious Background: Muslim
Status: Vulnerable, resident
Current caregiver: New Hope
Former caregiver: Grandparents
Family
Father: Alive
Occupation: boda-boda
Year died: NA
Cause of Death: NA
Mother: status unknown
Occupation: UNK
Year died: UNK
Cause of death: UNK
Number of Brothers: 2
Number of Sisters: 1
My Story
Alamanzani never knew his mother, who abandoned the family when he was still very young. Before coming to New Hope, Alamanzani lived with his father, a boda-boda (bicycle taxi) operator earning less than two dollars per day, and 3 siblings in a small, one-room shanty in the Arubaine slums of Busia.
Alamanzani could not go to school regularly due to a lack of school supplies, which his father could not afford. On the many days he was sent away from class, Alamanzani would work his older brother, Musa, collecting scrap metal from dumps and side-streets and then selling the scraps over the border in Kenya. On a typical day, Alamanzani earned the equivalent of $0.13, ate no more than twice, and shared a papyrus mat at night. Not attending school regularly and spending most days completely unsupervised, Alamanzani was identifed as a child at high risk of becoming a street kid and brought to our program by his father. Alamazani wants to be a pilot.
Alamanzani is now under the full care of New Hope.
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