Every year, fourteen thousand Kenyan children are born into a life shaped by sickle cell disease and a healthcare system often ill-equipped to support them. The condition remains one of the country’s most prevalent yet neglected illnesses, placing a heavy burden on families, especially in the lake region and western Kenya.
For one father in Busia, raising a child living with the disease and losing another became too painful to endure in silence. He chose to turn grief into action — by walking. Brenda Wanga has his story.
