Kenya & Nairobi

When one thinks of Kenya, your mind automatically goes to the Nairobi slum area where over one million people live in filth too drastic to describe.  The odor strikes with such a blow it shocks your senses long before you actually reach the area.  It is difficult to realize that human beings can survive in such an environment. 

Hollow-eyed children are everywhere.  Many are orphans due to the AIDS epidemic.  The majority go without daily food.   More children and adults than one can count dig through the enormous dump which borders the slums looking for anything to eat or sell in order that they might eat.  Open sewage runs down the rocky roads that intertwine throughout the area.  Open toilets lined with maggots are spotted throughout.  The population is so thick it’s hard to walk without bumping into someone with every step.  Small open markets are everywhere, selling whatever they can.  “Families” consist of mostly one woman with several children, many of which are not her own and older children caring for younger ones.  Women and children always outnumber the men due to the AIDS problem.

As we walk through the slums, we ask “what do You want to do through us Lord?”  In answer to that question we believe that God wants us to feed the poor and the widows, of which there are many.  BBM has committed to finding a way to feed over 600 children in a school called St. Michaels School in Korogocho Slum area.  We have had fifty desks, (which will hold 4 to 5 children) made for the school.  It’s our desire that we can provide all the school supplies and the food to feed these children twice daily.  This is the only food they will have on a daily basis.   For this to happen, we need prayer, volunteers who will go with us and money.  There is no way to accurately describe the dire situation these people are living in.  You have a chance to see for yourself what they are going through.   Please, ask God what He would have you do.  Then come with us or help us do the work by providing funding for others to go.  We need your prayers and support.  Get out of your comfort zone and do “something” that will count for the Kingdom.  You may contact us.

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