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Why nun set up poor people’s centre among the rich

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“The poor shouldn’t be separated from the rich. The rich can’t live without the poor, and vice versa; but they can help each with development,” that is Sister Margaret Maitha’s mantra. She founded the Kenya Family Charities in 2003 to take care of orphans, widows, and destitute mothers and their children, near the wealthy Karen and middle-class Dagoretti estates. Sister Maitha says she started the organisation at the doorstep of the rich because “the rich and the poor must co-exist.” “Getting the needy isn’t hard. In our country, slums are there and the residents are naturally needy,” Sister...

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