A terrible accident has happened, and we need your prayers for God’s help in this difficult situation.
Dear friends.
Friday evening our Masai watchman came to our house knocking. He sat down on the steps and started to cry. When Torkild asked what had happened, he cried even harder and was finely able to tell us.
A horrible accident had happened to his wife and two children in the Masai village. There had been an explosion in the kitchen when his wife had put oil on the petrol lamp, and so seriously that he wasn’t sure that they would survive.
After having put the oil in the lamp she then lit it, when it exploded and the burning oil and flames hit her and the children setting the clothes on fire. She had the small 2 yrs. old son on her lap and her 5 yrs. old daughter was sitting next to her in the kitchen.
A neighbor had called the husband Loriku to tell him to hurry up and come. They desperately needed help and were screaming from pain.
We immediately contacted two of our workers and sent them to pick up the wounded and take them to the hospital in Arusha. It’s a distance of about 200 km and our chauffer said, that he had never driven so fast in his life.
They were ever so shocked when they saw what kind of state the poor people were in with burns on their heads and arms.
Torkild drove to the hospital to inform and prepare them for what was coming. They quickly mobilized 2 doctors and 6 nurses who stood ready to receive them.
Torkild stayed with them at the emergency and said he’d never experience such a horrible thing. They were screaming from pains and when they took off the wife’s clothes all her skin peeled off with the clothes.
She has only one space left under her foot, where the skin hasn’t peeled off. She’s seriously burned all over.
Half of the little boy’s body is burned and the little girl her head and arms.
The doctors and nurses worked with them for 4 hours without a pause.
Dear beloved friends they really need our prayers. We’re so afraid that the wife won’t survive.
The doctors said they would do everything to save all of them, but looking Torkild deeply in the eyes stated that it would really take a miracle from God. He also said that they really couldn’t say anything about the chances until after at least a couple of days.
All 3 of them lie in the same room in small tents without clothes. They are in the Mission hospital and are really well taken care of. There’s no health insurance here, so we’ll be ever so grateful, if some of you would financially help in this, so we are sure that they’ll receive all help possible.
Thank you for standing by them with your prayers in this difficult situation.
The photos are of the family taken in 2008. The girl on the mother’s arms is the little girl who got burnt.
The little boy wasn’t born then.
Lots of love
Torkild og Tabitha.
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The father disappeared and they have had no contact with him for several years. Ruth is a bright girl in school. Her school decided to sponsor her schooling because they are really poor. For various reasons the school recently shut down and Ruth had to find another school.
The mother cannot afford to send Ruth to another school. Ruth’s grandfather is a Maasai and he wants to have her back in Maasai land. He does not want a girl to get eductaed, but instead follow the Maasai traditions for girls: to be married. Maasais think that only boys should get educated.
Ruth’s mother told me that Ruth’s grandfather had received an offer from an elderly, wealthy Maasai who wanted to pay a very large dowry in the form of many cows in order to marry Ruth. Ruth had been desperate because she wanted to stay in school, get her education and choose her husband when the time was ripe. For this reason the mother and Ruth came to our office asking for help.
We trusted God and sent Ruth to a good, Christian school where she is thriving.
We received a sponsor who will support her until Form 4 is completed. But Ruth wishes to continue for another two years and graduate from High School. If any of you would like to support Ruth for a few more years please write us or send a gift to our missions account. Please earmark it “Ruth”.
