Place Liberia

Partner WSD

Age 11

Gender Male

Shadrack is one of two surviving triplets. He has three brothers and five sisters.  When he was about five months old, Shadrack got sick and was hospitalized for one month. He was diagnosed with chronic malaria.  He survived the illness but developed hearing loss. His father died while he was still an infant some years ago leaving the mother alone to take care of the kids. Later, she remarried and has since been living with her new husband about 158 kilometers away in another county's forest in search of a better life. Like Shadrack, all of his siblings are living with different people. She left Shadrack in the hands of his grandparent.  His Grandpa is a jobless man who also depends on the profit accumulated from the sale of dry boney fish which his wife sells around town on her head daily. The boy is lively and enjoys being with his classmates every school day.