Orphans receive supplies and uniforms

Shaline has been one of my sponsored children since I first felt that we should try to help the children in a dependable manner. I brought Todd White, of Austin Stone Community Church, and his wife, Patsy, in January to take photographs of orphans. At that time, we had over 100 children show up and several had parents but all were interested in getting sponsors. I went to Pastor Joseph's church, my favorite, where they had a dancing presentation, scriptures, and plenty of Jesus singing. There he showed me several children who were full orphans, Mary and Shaline being two of them. I went home with Mary on my mind continually because she only smiled when she was dancing. Other than that, she had not smiled at all. And Shaline never smiled.
Now LOOK AT SHALINE! She is radiant!
It is such a wonderful opportunity to give to those who don't have anyone fighting for them. Pastor Joseph had arranged for some widows in the church to take the girls in. I began to support the widows and orphans through the giving of my children, Kevin and Laura, each giving $50 a month and so four girls from that church were supported with $25 a month to their guardian widows. That wasn't enough for all expenses because Mary has some sort of eye allergy that gave her headaches. We investigated her vision first and found it was good. Thankfully, she gets treatment now and doesn't come home missing school. She made progress in school.
Now we have donors for every child, some still at only $25 a month and needing another sponsor, but some have $50 a month! This is a huge amount in Kenya. Not giving a family all they need, but it goes incredibly far there to people who have survived on nearly nothing. Schooling and uniforms are a status symbol to these children and they may be the only ones in their area with a mattress! ( I gave some pillows to our TGD students and they got sore necks because they weren't used to them---but LOVED them anyway! Yay!)

Frank is doing an amazing job leading the team through all the administration and management hurdles and we are all thanking God together. It is a great day of rejoicing and thankfulness in Kenya!