Help us bring hope to shattered lives

On the left you see Ann, aged 9, and Charity, aged 3, when they arrived at the centre.  Their mother died in 1997 and they were sent to live with their step grandmother.  One of her own daughters had also died, leaving three more children.  This is typical of the new nuclear family in Kenya – a grannie and 6-9 orphan grandchildren.  Their grandmother was very poor and in ill health - and she could not cope with five children.  So, Ann and Charity were neglected. They didn’t have enough to eat, very little to wear and virtually nothing to sleep on.   Their little bodies were infested with jiggers (a flea like insect which burrows into flesh).  

Ann walked with great pain and Charity couldn’t walk at all because their feet were so swollen by the jiggers.

They were the first children to arrive when we set up the Centre.  They were given medical attention and put on a feeding programme.  They received tuition and counselling before starting at the local school.

Today, ten years later, they are healthy, happy, beautiful girls as you can see on the right.  Both of them enjoy singing and dancing and have high aspirations.  Ann has now left our Centre and is working as a housekeeper  and Charity intends to become a doctor.