By Jessica Lewis | US Board
Earlier this year, we received a message from Kwamboka Okari, our Executive Director in Kenya. She wrote:
Last Friday, I received a call from the police to inform me that they needed our help and asked if I could go to their station. The police lady showed me a little boy seated in a corner and asked if I could help enroll the boy at our school. She explained that the little boy (Amos, age 6) and his sister (Marion, age 4) were brought there by their neighbors because their mother had beaten them badly and had threatened to kill them. When I asked why they didn't take the boy to the children's office, she explained that they tried to put the children in an orphanage, but the orphanage only took his sister. I agreed to take Amos, but on condition that his sister come along with him so the children would not be separated. After several phone calls by the police lady, we drove to the orphanage to pick up Marion. They are both with me until next week when I will take them to school (which was on holiday at the time).
Later in our exchange, Kwamboka wrote:
It broke my heart immensely when I learned that for six days Amos had been sleeping on the cold bare cement floor of the police building corridor, with only a light jacket as a cover...After Amos got to my house, I asked him what they gave him to eat and he answered 'ugali without veggies' (meaning for six days he ate only a polenta like cake made of cornmeal and water). The story goes on and on, but I will stop here for now because I just want to cry...I love what I do, however it pains me deeply when children are hurting.
Fast forward several months and Amos and Marion have fully integrated into life at Margaret Okari Primary school.
Amos and Marion are two of more than 200 orphans and at-risk children we educate, house, feed and nurture thanks to the support of donors like you. Our major fundraiser of the year, #GivingTuesday through GlobalGiving, is coming up on November 29, 2022. We hope that you will, once again, help us to care for children like Amos and Marion.
Wishing you a very happy Thanksgiving,
The MOCF US Board
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