This Baby Needs Your Help

Hello friends,

For over a month now I have been coordinating efforts to save this little girl (on the right, in the pink) from losing more weight. She had been losing weight due to having wounds in her mouth.  She could not eat, and she has lost most of her teeth.  Some of her teeth had broken off and she had early dental issues. Her parents took so long to get her to hospital for one reason or another.

I met this little one and her mother in one of the medical camps that we held at the slums.  Her mother brought her and she was weak and emaciated.  She had been unable to eat for days and had wounds all over her mouth.  I took her to one hospital and helped her for about a month with her medical needs.

This is the slum area.  When you live in poverty with little water, food or sanitation, it is hard to stay healthy.

This week was a success for me.  The little girl (in the pink) is able to walk, run and smile.  She is able to eat!  This is miraculous.

It will take awhile yet for the child's blood count to strengthen before she can get surgery. She will also need special teeth to help her eat.  The mama is so happy to have help for her little girl.

What we need: prayer and a possible donor for mouth reconstruction surgery and artificial teeth. The long brown elongated one's (teeth) will be removed. Also, food to keep her healthy...in terms of milk & school. That is a lot we know, but God can talk through other people. Pray for this girl. She seems so bright. She draws with very little teaching from any quarter.

Buying some food for the family.

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Last Update From Turkana

Hello friends,

This is my last update about the Turkana relief effort.

We had a great time in Turkana serving the people there with our love and gifts.

In total we distributed 90,000 kg of corn/maize and 20,000 kg of beans.

We are so much grateful to God for making this possible.

 

Today we visited AGC Lokichar Secondary School. This school gave us lots of hope because it is doing so well. It is the best performing school in Turkana, and yet it is also situated in a famine stricken area. This brought a lot of hope for us as we left the land of Turkana.

Keep praying for this school. 

Several of their students were "A" students last year and yet they don't even have a functioning lab or even some of the other amenities.

Many thanks and please enjoy the pics.

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More Photos of the Turkana Relief Effort

Hello,


Thank you so much for following our updates from here in Turkana country in northern Kenya where we are bringing much needed food relief to the people.

The vehicle gets stuck in the fine sand.

There are many people gathered for the food distribution. There are lots of children in the group.

I am so glad that you are praying for us.

Tomorrow will be our last day to visit this place and distribute the food before returning home.

The women and girls adorn themselves with many necklaces.

I'm holding one of the stools that Turkana men carry. They use it to sit on or to put their head on when they go to sleep.

Tonight it is so hot here that I am contemplating whether to sleep inside or
outside the house where I am staying.

Some of our team members  who are mostly university students have opted to sleep in the open. Thank God there is a moon to show the way.

Otherwise enjoy the pics and continue to pray for our work and our journey.

This is the dirty water that the Turkana people have to drink. We have brought them some water but they really need good clean water. How wonderful it would be if they had a proper well.

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Relief Effort to Northern Kenya

Hello friends,

This morning, along with other partners, Missions of Hope was able to flag off 5 lorries (large transport trucks) full of supplies to be taken to the northern parts of Kenya.

It is such a joy to see that our dear ones in the north are going to get support in terms of much needed food and water.

Please pray with us as we journey to this part of Kenya where the people have great need of everything.

Along our journey we managed as well to visit the Kerio Valley where we had a great look out over the valley. What a sizzling look we had.

Enjoy the pics!

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Food Relief in the Horn of Africa

As you might have read in the leading newspapers, there is a very bad drought in northern Kenya, in Somalia and Ethiopia.  Christians here and several organizations have decided to do something about it and I got involved too. (You can click on any of the photos to enlarge).

In the pictures you can see that we visited and took food relief to the Maasai people and the Somalians providing much needed water and other supplies.









I think we have got to do something.  At least
visit these people and give what we have.

Going there is not easy but we have to try to make a difference at least.

 

I will be travelling there again.  Maybe next week.  

Partner with us and let's help those in great need.

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 Some beautiful flowers in Kenya.

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Kigen Goes Home

Hello friends, I want to tell you that the little boy we were helping from Pokot country in the north of Marigat has now been released from Moi Hospital. Some of you know I went to Pokot country on a relief mission because the people were very hungry.  Their hunger led to fighting in one place.  When I heard about that I wanted to do something to help.

Missionary, mother Paulina and the children, 
Kigen can now see out of one eye. Praise God!

My post was called "Heart for the Pokot". While there with my friend and with assistance of an NGO from Kericho, I met the little boy and his mother Paulina.  We prayed for them because it was clear there was something very wrong with the children. You can see what I mean in the photos below.  After that we raised some money to bring the boy to a hospital in Eldoret, Kenya.  The children had something very wrong with their skin and the boy, Kigen could not see.  Both of his eyes were closed shut.

The family has been a long time now in Eldoret but they are now finally going home. They have all gotten healthier looking. The boy, Kigen can now see out of one eye because the doctors did surgery.  He has been recovering and the hospital has been ready for some weeks now to release them. We had to wait until we could get some funds to take them back to their village.  It took us awhile to clear the bill with the hospital but now that is done.  The family is happy to go home at last.  I am happy that this mission is completed.

We could not have done it without friends.  Those who gave and those who prayed. I thank you all. God knows who you are and he will reward you.

My next mission will be trying to get help for the young man named Kipngeno. He needs a sponsor to help him go to university. He will study in the health field. You can read about him on my Priorities page (see menu at the top).  If you know of where we might get a sponsor for him, please let me know.  We hope he can start the term in late August as he has already been accepted at Kisii University.

Enjoy the photos and please continue to pray for me.  Pray too for this family and the missionary.  

Kalenjin Culture Dictates Burial Rites

"A good name is better than precious ointment; 
and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

Hello,

We lost my uncle (although we refer to him as grandfather most of the time because he is the oldest of the generation of our grandfathers).

Many people really admired him as he was a very strong Christian and never engaged himself in fights. He lived in harmony with everyone.

In Kalenjin culture, a place for my uncle's burial is usually the prerogative of the clan to decide.  Uncle married two wives and one of the wives died a long time ago.  So he was staying with the wife who is called his second wife whom he married in the 1950's. He stayed with her for most of his working life and through his illness.

 

The second wife is also the younger wife and because he was living with her there was no need to keep a second home for the first wife since no one would be living in it. Kalenjin culture does not allow a man to be buried near the house of the younger wife so we had to build a house quickly so that he could be buried next to his first wife.

This was a learning lesson for us  as we had never witnessed this before.  We learned a lot  though what was of interest for me is to see what the Bible says and how far culture can be changed by it.  I did learn my lessons though and am weighing the pros and cons of this culture (cultural practises).

My uncle has been laid to rest and we are now are now comforted.

Enjoy the photos.