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Beacon of Hope for the Poorest

Father Stefan is determined not to abandon Conakry’s street children to their fates and to help them find ways to lead lives worth living.

This is not the first project of this kind for Father Stefan:

Beacon of hope for the poorest

 

As early as 1969, he got involved in Mauretania’s capital Nouakchott, which is situated in the Sahel zone and constantly plagued by hunger catastrophes. For more than 20 years, he succeeded in alleviating a lot of squalor there, and he managed to provide a lot of street children not only with homes for survival, but also with care, love, and the chance for a professional training.

Upon meeting the Bishop of Conakry in Guinea, Father Stefan was told that there were even more street children there. So, in 1992, Father Stefan decided to start a second project to help Conakry’s street children. His aim is to “give back to these harmed little children, who have experienced violent and dramatic blows of fate, a joyful and hopeful future.”

“Not even in my dreams would I have imagined that I could live so happily“, says Amadou, whose life had consisted of hard labor and physical abuse until then. “Death would be best for you”, his mother had declared.

It is upsetting to see which physical and emotional hardships these children have gone through. They have lost their zests for life. Sometimes they open up only after some weeks after they have been taken in by Father Stefan, and then a first smile is brightening up their faces. For Father Stefan, this is the greatest reward for his work: ”When a child can smile again, like all the other children in the world, then that’s my gratification!”

 
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