A Child Arise First~Hooray
for Mutheu
By Elizabeth Mativo
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| Mutheu, June 2012 |
Mutheu has seen the hand of God since
her mother passed away giving birth to her sister when Mutheu was only 2 years
old. She and her siblings were left with
their father, which was a struggle for the entire family because he just
couldn’t care for them all. The elder
children, about 6 and 10 took care of the younger ones and the new infant was
very handicapped. Later, the father died
too and the children continued to care for each other.
Pastor Mativo and I helped the
children as best we could. When Child
Arise was formed, this family was the first of the orphaned children to be
helped.
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| The Jackson Family, June 2012 |
Mutheu’s life is a testimony through
and through. Child Arise has played a
major role in paying for Mutheu’s school fees and computer college. It is also through Child Arise that Mutheu
has grown to be a God-fearing lady through Bible studies and encouragement from
peers.
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| Our team visited Mutheu's Computer Technical College, June 2012 |
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| The classroom at the Computer Technical College |
After achieving her high
school graduation, Mutheu headed off to computer school. When I told her she would be going to
Computer Technical College, Mutheu was excited and she looked forward to
it. She put in a lot of effort in
classes and passed well. When she was
there, she faced additional challenges.
The death of Musenya, her younger,
handicapped sister, a few months ago, struck her very hard, as she was the
closest to her. This caused her a
medical breakdown and she had to drop out of computer training. I had to take her to live with me for three
weeks, observing and taking care of her after her hospitalization. The first week she would barely eat.
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| Part of the congregation at the funeral |
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| Musenya's funeral |
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| Musenya's burial |
Little by little she started accepting
life as it is. She was thankful for the
second chance to go back to Computer Technical College so that she could
finish. She received her certificate in
December!
Her challenge now is that she needs to
find a job and she is looking in the city.
From where I stand, I have heard Mutheu testify and personalize God’s
faithfulness with her own mouth, using Philippians 4:19, “And my God will
supply every need of mine according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
God bless all that have made it happen
for this young lady and pray that she gets a job soonest. We hope to see many more like her through
Child Arise.
Love in Christ, Elizabeth
(Mutheu
Mutinda Jackson’s family story was told in Dec 2010 newsletter. Read it again, republished on this blog on 2/9/13.)
Save
A Child From Sex Trafficking
by Dawn Brown
Both boys
and girls benefit from the Bible lessons and feeding programs of Child Arise
Kenya Widows and Orphans Ministry.
However, most of the orphaned children in the ministry who receive
school fees are girls. There are
difficulties growing up in poverty that are exclusive to girls.
Elizabeth
Mativo explains that culturally, if a family can’t afford to send all of their
children to school, they will not send their girls. It is considered a better choice to educate
your sons, who will hopefully grow up and help you financially.
A common
problem with those living in poverty is that they will send their very young
girls far away to the city in hopes that they will be able to find work to feed
themselves. Many times these children
will end up in child slavery or sex trafficking.
Another
problem is that girls are often “given” to other families for a “bride price”
and married off way to young. Basically,
they sell their little daughters.
Elizabeth
encourages the widowed women in the ministry to make better choices for the
orphaned girls they care for. By
providing food and school fees for the poorest, it will ease the financial
burden and she hopes they will not make these poor choices for the children in
their care.
The cost to
send one girl to grade school for a year is $140 which includes tuition, fees
and supplies plus the required school uniform.
To send a girl to high school runs about $284-$1,500 depending on the
high school for which she qualifies.
If you are
concerned about child slavery and sex trafficking, a donation to this ministry can help save a child from sex
trafficking BEFORE she gets there.
YOU make a difference in the lives of these orphaned children when you
donate to Child Arise.
100% of your donation goes to Kenya.
Donations can be made to
Child
Arise Kenya
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