Dear beloved friends.
It’s with a great pain in my heart I’m writing this.
Mirjam and her girls have just come back from vacation in Denmark, and the following is what she has written:
It’s with a great mixture of frustrations I’m writing this. While in Denmark we got a lot of care and good food, and therefore managed to put on 3 kilos. It rained nearly every day, and when we landed in Kenya and drove together with my husband Per home to Tanzania, I truly felt like crying out of frustration.
Here we sat happy and 3 kilos heavier looking at km after km of dried out land from lack of rain. In Demark they’d only talked on the news about Somalia and Kenya suffering from the drought, but not that all of Eastern Africa were, including my beloved Tanzania. I could only think of, that I’d just left a country of abundance to get back to a suffering country, which should have got all that the rain, we really didn’t need in Denmark. The weight we’d gained, our friends the Masais had lost just as much.
We (Tabitha and I) would like to help these people with food, but as you know it takes money. We also know how important learning is for the children, but without food they won’t be able to, because they can’t stay awake.
A bag of corn flour costs 250 DKK. and can feed a family for 2 months.
The Masai watch men are all the time asking:” Mama, when can we drive out and give the people some food”? They’re starving.
THIS IS A CRY OUT FOR HELP.
Remember “Many small streams make one big river.”
“Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give;
not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.” 2.Cor.9:7
Love from
Mirjam and 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”.
