Life in Africa
• Lived on the streets until he was 14 years old
- he was fighting for his life every day
• He lived in an orphanage for 5 years
- the housemothers used to abuse the children and even let them starve
- instead of going to school, Philip had to work jobs
• A couple from Hamburg adopted him when he was 19 years old
“Sometimes I wonder how I
survived, the mental torture and
the physcial abuse (...)“
- Philip Oprong Spenner
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