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By Millicent Njue
02/29/08
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The Blaring lights seemed to send a message of hope to Janet as she lay sprawled on the hospital bed. It was the third day in the hospital bed and the first time she knew of her whereabouts. All she could remember was that the last time she was conscious life was normal as had been for most of the nine years of her life.

On that fateful day that changed her life forever, she was about to go out and tend her uncles goats at the nearby valley. This being a normal daily activity, she had no reservations to doing what came as a normal activity to her. Ever since her father died when she was four and her mother following soon after, all she did for life was tend her uncles’ goats in exchange for sustenance. That of course came with tough conditions for a girl of 9years but then again Janet knew better than anyone else that life was not fair.

And so on the said day she had woken up early as usual to help prepare her uncles children for school before being left behind to perform some chores before heading to the valley. She had gone around well for most of the morning until she saw her Uncle approaching from the back of the house. He had seemed a bit more agitated than usual but since she could not remember having committed any offence she had gone up calmly to the one person left for her in the whole world. It was then that he had descended on her with kicks and blows claiming that she had forgotten to close the shelter the previous night and that some of the goats had escaped. The beating she got left her bleeding and were it not for some neighbors who came to her aid and rushed her to hospital things would have probably gone worse.

So here she lay on the hospital bed on that day, with little recollection of what had happened and just hoping the pain away. What she didn’t know was that her story had been highlighted on a local daily and had caught the attention of a childless couple, visiting Africa from the USA for the first time. They were moved to tears by the story and right then had decided to adopt and take her back to their home with them. In the midst of all the pain and what seemed like dark days ahead, little Janet did not know that her destiny was about to change for the better, forever.

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