Paa was born to a woman of the streets who had birthed 11 other children with several men. Paa doesn't know most of his siblings. Gladys was homeless and couldn't take care of her children. Most of the time Paa went to bed hungry and sad. He was growing up on the streets learning to beg and steal to survive. Living this way was extremely risky because if he was caught, he could have been beaten to death. By God’s grace Paa's story was told to our staff at Haven of Hope home and someone went to bring him to the children's home so that he could be properly cared for and educated. He was rescued from death, for he surely wouldn’t have lived long on the street.

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