09/10/2021 7:41 PM
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Updated 9/10/2021 7:41 PM
Marta Oreja
, a Spanish aid worker who founded an NGO in
Kenya
, will be tried in that African country after being accused of child abuse and exploitation.
She assures that the complaint was made by workers who tried to take revenge.
At the moment, the trial was postponed until September 24 because one of the three people who reported it withdrew the complaint, according to Oreja on the Facebook page of his NGO,
"Supporting Healthcare in Kenya"
, where he details everything that happened. .
The Spanish woman is being held in this country awaiting trial and says she has received
a threatening letter
.
"An organization asks the Police to arrest me immediately for all the crimes I am committing, and that if no official body does it, they will do it," he says.
Marta Oreja assures that everything is a revenge of two people who tried to keep money from the children's families during their absence in Kenya.
Oreja is a professor at
ESIC Idiomas Tudela
, in Navarra, and founder of the NGO Supporting Healthcare in Kenya.
From Kenya, Oreja affirmed that these are "false accusations made by the former director of the Kombani school", which would not work without the NGO based in Tudela.
Said director had been
denounced by Oreja herself
when she found out that she was charging parents a monthly fee so that their children could go to school, when the school operated for free.
In this institution, called
Mamawatoto School
, 122 children receive free education, health care and food.
That is why Oreja is in serious trouble because of the complaint.
Marta Oreja is a professor at ESIC Idiomas Tudela, in Navarra, and founder of the NGO Supporting Healthcare in Kenya.
The complaining principal and his wife ran the school for two years until Oreja returned to Africa.
Then, Kenyan families told him that in his absence,
everything was no longer free.
Oreja decided to fire the woman and filed a complaint for extortion.
"
A criminal investigation
is currently underway
where much more information is coming to light. This looks like a horror movie," Oreja said.
In retaliation and, in his opinion, taking advantage of his "helplessness as a tourist", the director and his wife decided to report her for child abuse and exploitation. "His complaint is that I am
a person who is changing his identity
with the sole purpose of hiding the illegal activities that I am perpetuating in this country," says Oreja.
The NGO founded by Oreja collected donations from Spain.
Through partners who paid 12 euros a month,
the organization worked so that the children do not lack anything. Now, while he awaits the sentence and sees how the case has already taken on international significance, Oreja said that he will do "whatever it takes to protect the project, the NGO and not to close the school." And he concluded: "I am not going to give up", while asking for help from the world
to face an "unfair trial."