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Kojo's Life Journey Seat Belts Please! Get Ready For Kojo’s Life Journey 2008 1 All About Kojo Kojo’s Home and Family Kojo’s Nursery Kojo’s Name The Beginning Kojo’s Time with June Kojo’s Mum and Dad More About Kojo 2008 2 (scan in photograph) This is Kojo and as you can see he is a fine looking boy, with big brown eyes and a great smile! Kojo was born on the 5th April 2004, so that makes him 4 years old at the moment. Kojo is fit and healthy and he has plenty of energy. He is tall and just about the right size for a 4 year old and of course, his mum and dad think that he is just lovely! Kojo likes being outside either riding his bike, playing football and going to the park. He has lots of toys – but his favourites are his cars. Kojo just loves cars - small ones, large ones, fast ones, slow ones, electronic ones, push along ones, ones with wheels and even ones without wheels 3 Kojo just loves cars! 4 Kojo lives in a town called Newton, with his mum and dad. Kojo’s mum is called Pat and his dad is Samuel, but most people call him Sam for short. They are both from sunny Ghana, in West Africa, and they speak both English and Twi. They left Ghana many years ago, in 1990, and came to live and work in Britain, and now they live in Newton. Kojo’s dad is a chemist and before Kojo became their son, his mum worked on the computers in the College in Newton. Kojo’s family is a happy one and they have lots of fun together. His mum and dad really like taking Kojo out for walks, so he is beginning to know Newton very well. 5 He really likes going to local parks, and his favourites is Green Park as they have really good swings and a slide there - and it is also quite near to McDONALD’s! ? I wonder what Kojo likes to eat when he goes there? Kojo and his mum and dad all live in a very nice house, and it has a good garden, big enough for him to play football in! Kojo has his own bedroom and the walls are painted blue. He has a Thomas the tank engine poster on his wall, Thomas the tank curtains and even a Thomas the tank duvet cover. I think that Kojo must really like Thomas. I wonder? Kojo also has some family photographs in his room, and he has one of June. This is the lady who looked after him before he came to live in Newton, with his mum and dad. 6 On Sundays Kojo goes to church with his mum and dad. They all enjoy the singing and Kojo likes listening to the bible story in the church’s children group. 7 Kojo goes to Park Road nursery school and his teacher is Mrs Smith. Kojo enjoys going to nursery and I am sure that his teacher must really enjoys having Kojo in her class too! Kojo’s favourite things are numbers, cutting and sticking and playtime. Mrs Davies said that Kojo gets on really well with all of the other children and he has lots of friends at nursery but his main ones are Ben, Joseph and Kay. Kojo and his friends enjoys playing football, and using the computers Kojo will be starting big school soon, and I am sure that he will enjoy this too. 8 Kojo’s full name is Kojo Enam Boateng. Kojo is a Ghanaian name and means ‘born on a Monday’. Lots of Ghanaians name their children after the day of the week on which they were born - and Kojo was born on a Monday! Enam is also Ghanaian and it means, ‘a gift from God’. His mum and dad chose this name because they feel that Kojo is such a precious gift. His surname is Boateng – the same as his mum and dad. Of course, Kojo’s surname was not always Boateng. At first it was Kojo Asamoah. How could this be? Well, families come in all shapes and sizes and children join families in all sorts of ways. Some children born into them, some live with aunts and uncles, grandparents, friends, special guardians or foster carers and some are adopted into their families. Foster carers usually look after children for a short while, until they can move on to a new family. Julia, the lady who looked after Kojo, was a foster carer. 9 Adoptive parents are forever parents - children stay with their adoptive mums and dads until they are all grown up! Mum and dad are Kojo’s adoptive parents. There will be other adopted children in Newton and in the whole country and indeed all over the world! And there are lots of famous people and character that have also been adopted too, like: Baby Moses & Superman …and Nelson Mandela So like thousands of other children Kojo was adopted and this is how he became: Kojo Enam Boateng 10 Like most children, Kojo was born in hospital. He was born in St Luke’s Hospital in London. Kojo was born on the 5tht April 2004, and this was a Monday. Kojo arrived before he was actually expected! He was premature, which means that he was born 6 weeks early. He was born at 7.20 hours, and that’s the same as saying 20 minutes past 7 in the morning. So he arrived just around breakfast time! Although he was small, Kojo was a gorgeous little bundle with big brown eyes and black curly hair. 11 Kojo weight was 2 kgs when he was born, and that’s about the same as 2 bags of sugar. Kojo had to stay in hospital for a while, as he was quite small, and all the nurses agreed that he was such a gorgeous, loveable baby and they all enjoyed caring for him. Kojo soon put on a bit of weight and when he was 3 weeks old he was well enough to leave the hospital Like all babies Kojo has a birth mother and a birth father. Kojo’s birth mother is Ella and his birth father was called Emmanuel. They both came from different counties in Africa; Ella came from Ghana, just like Kojo’s adoptive mum and dad, while Emmanuel came from Nigeria. GHANA NIGERIA 12 Very little else is known about Emmanuel. Ella said that he was quite tall, about 5ft 10 ins with black skin and hair and dark brown eyes. She didn’t really know him very well, but thought that he was about 40 years old and he worked in a garage in South London. Ella was born in the capital of Ghana, Accra. She has long black hair and she often changes her hair style. She is quite small, only about 5ft and slim. This in Ella Ella was born in 1981 so she was in 23 when Kojo was born. She didn’t have any brothers or sisters and her parents had died when she was a very young child, so she was brought up by her grandmother in Ghana. The family were quite poor and life was quite difficult for Ella in Ghana, so a few years ago, after her grandmother had died, Ella decided to come to England to live. Although Ella was pleased to be living here, and she felt that life was much better for her, sometimes she just wasn’t feeling very well and that’s when she would become very unhappy and ‘down’. Then she would become very muddled in her thinking and she just wasn’t always able to look after herself very well. Sometimes she would even forget to eat for several days and had to go into hospital so that she could be looked after. 13 When Kojo was born in 2004, Ella was very happy and just like everyone else, she thought that he was a lovely baby. She decided to call him Kojo as he was born on a Monday morning. She thought that he was a gorgeous, beautiful little boy, and while they were still in the hospital, and with the help of the nurses, she was able to look after him. Kojo and Ella left hospital together as soon as the doctors felt that he was ready, and they stayed in a large house, called Pine Trees, with lots of other families. There were some other helpers, social workers and nurses there who were able to show Ella how to look after little baby Kojo. Everyone tried to help Ella care for Kojo but sometimes she still became very muddled about everything, and after a few weeks the helpers, the nurses and the social workers who knew Ella all felt that she would not be able to look after little baby Kojo in the very special way that babies need to be looked after. Kojo and June So, when Kojo was still a very lttle baby, just 6 wweks old he moved from Pine Trees and he went to live with June. June was his foster carer and she knew exactly how to look after little baby Kojo. She had looked after lots of 14 children before, and while Kojo was living with her she was also looking after another little boy, called Conner. Ella still wanted to see Kojo and when she was feeling well enough she would come with the social worker to see him at June’s house or sometimes they would spent time together in the playroom at the Family Centre, usually this was 3 times a week.
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