Greetings from Lamu.
It is with great joy that I write this brief report on the recently concluded exercise of donating foodstuffs to selected vulnerable families in Hindi, Lamu County in the month of November 2020. We at Charitos Transformation Africa continue to thank God for Partners like you and others whom the LORD touches to give their resources to make a difference in other people’s lives.
We prepared a list of close to 40 vulnerable families together with Hindi Pastors Fellowship as the Pastors are well spread out throughout the Sub-County. Of course there are many more needy families but the money at hand was not enough to provide something substantial for all of them. We only provided for the extreme of cases.
Each household got at least a bale of Wheat and Maize flour, 5 Kgs of Rice, 2 Litres of cooking oil, 2 Kgs of Sugar, 3 Kgs of Beans, Tea Leaves, Salt, and some washing detergent.
The foodstuffs had such a great impact in the lives of the recipients. We found some of them quite sick and unable to move around to look for something to eat. (Like this old and sick man we found preparing a little porridge, the only meal he had.) Others were quite aged and had the health complications that come with age. Unfortunately a few of these were abandoned by their relatives and live at the mercies of their neighbours. Many of them literally shed tears when they saw the food. They confessed that they had not had a good meal for a very long time. Some of us distributing the food could not also hold our tears, and some situations were quite emotional especially when it came to prayer at the end of the visit.
This particular family had nothing to cook for supper the evening the food was delivered. The elderly lady and her husband (in the middle) had lit some fire, then had stared at each other asking aloud what they would cook for supper as their food reserves had dried. Suddenly the vehicle enters their dilapidated homestead and they are a bit confused. When they finally realized about the blessing of food, they were overcome with emotion and expressed their deep gratitude to God and to those who had donated the food. Both of them are in their eighties.
Others are young widows, their husbands having died leaving them with young children and very little to feed them on, while still others are aged widows with very little to live on. We also ministered to others who needed to hear the Gospel, prayed for others we found sick and somehow abandoned, and challenged some of the Pastors who accompanied us to some of these desperate families to mobilize their Churches to minister to the physical needs of these dear ones because they can!
It was a humbling experience. There is so much need in the community creating a wonderful opportunity for the people of God to exercise the Grace of giving.
All the families who benefitted say a BIG THANK YOU! to God and to all those who donated the food, and to Charitos Transformation Africa for bringing the food right into their doorsteps.
30th November 2020.
