Thursday 22 December 2016

My name is Samuel Maina from Jersken Little Angeles Home and this is my story




 I was born in the year 2002, now 14 years old. I lived with my mother. I did not know who my father was and so I knew I had no father. My mother and I faced so many challenges. We could go for two weeks without food sometimes passed and my mother started drugs and also took alcohol.


She could come home and beat me severely feeling no mercy. Sometimes I would escape and sleep in the streets or sleep under people’s cars. I could be rained on but I had no choice because I couldn’t go home for I had started fearing my loving mother. Days and weeks passed and the streets were now my home. 


I would go around and borrow people some money so as to get something to hold my hungry stomach. One day, I decided to go back home and found my mother talking to an old lady whom I later learned that she was my grandmother. She took me to her home and stayed with me. I thought I had reached the place to be but it was worse for I had to walk more than eight kilometers to school.


One day I come from school and found my grandmother sobbing and when I asked what was wrong she told me that it was nothing. That night my cousin came and told me that my mother had kicked the bucket because she was sick of tuberculosis. I never believed if she died or whether she was buried for I had not seen her.


Things started getting worse and worse but one way or the other I got used to them and forgot everything.

In my grandmother’s home, she was poor but she was not poor in her heart for she kept praying harder and harder for God to help us. One day as I was coming from school, I found my grandmother happier than before. 


My grandmother told me that somebody was wishing to help me and also educate me. I was indeed hoping for God had answered our prayers and I could be what I wanted to be. Now I am in Jersken Little Angeles Home, I am taken care of and I am also fed. I also go to a good boarding school.

I thank God for this. 


They were so good to us, and we were so good to them. We do everything together. After one year, eleven children were added and were twenty one children. Because we are so many children, we have two aunties to take care of us when our mother is not in. And now we are so happy and we now live like a family of one mother. We are boys and girls.


 

Post Script :

Jersken Little Angels home is a charity organization that cares for the less fortunate and needy children. The home has 21 children and is situated in Joska, along Kangundo Road. Founded by Ms. Lucy Falle and supported by a board of trustees, their desire is to help and support children to reach new heights by inspiring them to develop the desire and capacity to break the cycle of poverty and to become the best that they can be.


Jersken Little Angels home depends on well wishers who donate directly to the organization. 

Visit http://www.jersken.org for more information on the home.

 

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